Levine P A
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville.
Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 1987 Aug;20(3):457-77.
The treatment of fractures of the edentulous mandible has posed a significant problem to all physicians treating trauma patients because of the absence of teeth. Dynamic compression plating has been proven over the years by the experience of fracture apposition and excellent fragment immobilization in this difficult group.