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2 December 2019 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | bone plates, conventional plate, locking plate, mandibular fractures, meta-analysis, postoperative complications

This is as systematic review and meta-analysis from the Netherlands, evaluating postoperative complications of mandibular fractures using locking and non-locking systems. It is suggested that postoperative complications of surgical treatment of mandibular fractures occur in 20-26% of patients, and it...