FRACTURES OF THE INFERIOR MAXILLA
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- 9 January 1915
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. LXIV (2) , 132-138
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1915.02570280038011
Abstract
During the last eight years I have had quite an opportunity of studying fractures of the maxillary bones at the New York College of Dentistry. At the college we have a large daily oral surgery clinic under the direction of Prof. Faneuil D. Weisse and myself, which is fed by the outpatient department of nearly all of the large hospitals of Manhattan. Since the founding of the oral surgery clinic at the college in 1906, we have treated over 1,200 fractures of the inferior maxillary bone, but I am sorry to say that at this time I can present figures taken from only 1,065 cases, as some of the records are not very complete. Stimson says, "By fracture, in the surgical sense, is meant the breaking of a bone or cartilage." The liability of a bone to fracture depends on its shape, size and degree of exposure to external violenceKeywords
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