Facial fractures and bone healing in the geriatric patient.
A discussion of the biology of bone healing serves as the basis for a review of the clinical management of maxillofacial skeletal injury in the geriatric patient. Age-related changes in the facial skeleton and fractures of the edentulous mandible are described in detail.
Friedman
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Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Costantino
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D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D005544:Forecasting; D005592:Fracture Fixation; D006801:Humans; D008337:Mandibular Fractures / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012106:Research; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*