[The management of extra-oral implants. Anachronisms and paradoxes].
Used in France for ten years and in Sweden since 1977. Extra-Oral Implants (EOI) represent one of the new therapeutic approach of facial defects treatment by maxillo-facial prostheses fixed on implants and of some transmission deafnesses. Audiologic applications are free of charges for the patient but not the prosthetic applications; the authors note this paradox and some other anachronisms. Finally the authors wonder why Extra-Oral implantology is a "correct" science and why Intra-Oral Implantology remains absent from the Administrative texts as if it was a sort of doubtful therapy without scientific principles.
Sabin
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Service de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale, Caen.
Labbé
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Ferrand
J Y
JY
Kaluzinski
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Compère
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