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Resorbable (bioresorbable) plates or screws for fixation vs Titanium plates or screws for fixation

Need for retreatment or replacement of fixation due to failure of the fixation · Adults over 18 years of age with fractures of the facial skeleton including the mandible, maxilla, zygoma (malar); studies on fractures of…

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

1 finding from 1 review
  • Resorbable versus titanium plates for facial fractures 2009 · Cochrane All outcomes
    Up to 3 years postoperatively
    Planned primary outcome not assessed: none of the retrieved studies met the inclusion criteria, so no data were available for analysis. Verbatim (Effects of interventions): "Although 53 studies were retrieved in our…
    0 studies
    No studies found

One microplate plus one miniplate vs Two miniplates

Efficacy and stability of fixation (bite force) · Adults with isolated mandibular fractures in the interforaminal region
1 finding from 1 review
  • Interventions for the management of mandibular fractures 2013 · Cochrane All outcomes
    Only one study (Gupta 2012) compared one microplate in conjunction with one miniplate versus two miniplates in isolated interforaminal fractures; however, the data reported in the trial did not satisfy the review's…
    1 study
    GRADE not reported