Temporomandibular joint disk displacement and subsequent adverse mandibular growth : a radiographic, histologic and biomolecular experimental study
The mandibular condyles represent important growth sites within the facial skeleton. Condylar growth is not a pacemaker of mandibular development, but it provides regional adaptive growth that is of considerable clinical significance, as the condyle’s upward and backward growth movement regulates th...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Oral diagnostisk radiologi
2008
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1624 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7264-523-3 |