Trigeminal Nerve Injuries

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Michael Miloro Editor 2013 Microneurosurgery of the trigeminal nerve is still in its infancy, and we continue to develop more experience and knowledge, as well as technological advancements, in managing these complex clinical dilemmas. In fact, trigeminal nerve injury management should be considered a subspecialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery since this area of surgery requires additional training, knowledge, clinical […]

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Research Methods in Orthodontics – A Guide to Understanding Orthodontic Research

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Theodore Eliades Editor 2013   Too often, the question is asked, “Are you a clinician or a researcher? Are you in the academic ivory tower or out in the everyday world, treating live patients?” This is an unfortunate “either-or” dichotomy that impugns the real status and integrity of our profession for the new millennium. For medicine, the hand […]

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Oral and Cranial Implants

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Hugh Devlin • Ichiro Nishimura Editors 2013 We have tried to provide an evidence-base to some of the most important concepts in implantology. It will also provide a readable information source for the practitioner as well as a heavily referenced text for the researcher and specialist. We ask for feedback from our colleagues, students and manufacturers to help us […]

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Evidence-Based Forensic Dentistry

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Balwant Rai • Jasdeep Kaur 2013   Why this book, Evidence-Based Forensic Dentistry ? This specialized branch of dentistry has the potential to solve the legal issues with oral-dental structures and related issues encountered during forensic investigations. The research and experimentation in this fi eld can all lead to improvements in dentistry. This book draws on our own studies […]

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Dental Ceramics – Microstructure, Properties and Degradation

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Carlos P. Bergmann • Aisha Stumpf 2013   This book contains a brief overview of dental ceramics, its microstructure, properties, and susceptibility to degradation. After the Introduction (Chap. 1), it presents the general context of dental ceramics, addressing special phenomena and properties as a Biomaterial (Chap. 2), without going too much into scientific detail of the physics and chemistry […]

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Dental Biotribology

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Zhong-Rong Zhou • Hai-Yang Yu • Jing Zheng Lin-Mao Qian • Yu Yan 2013   The word “tribology” was introduced in 1966 to embrace the separate subjects of friction, wear, lubrication, and bearing design. Most machinery involves interacting surfaces in relative motion, and a sound understanding of the fundamental nature of these interactions is essential for future progress. Human […]

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Biomechanics in Dentistry: Evaluation of Different Surgical Approaches to Treat Atrophic Maxilla Patients

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Muhammad Ikman Ishak Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir 2013   The number of edentulous or toothless patients has shown an increase over the last decade. The edentulism phenomenon usually occurs proportional to age or can be due to tooth extraction. Patients can be categorised into two: either fully edentulous or partially edentulous. The latter commonly caused by bone resorption […]

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