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Volume 67, Issue 12 , Pages 2587-2591 , December 2009

Assessment of the Relationship Between Impacted Mandibular Third Molars and Inferior Alveolar Nerve With Dental 3-Dimensional Computed Tomography

Keisuke Nakayama, DDS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Makoto Nonoyama, DDS
- Resident, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Yasuo Takaki, DDS
- Resident, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Toyohiro Kagawa, DDS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostics and General Care, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Kenji Yuasa, DDS, PhD
- Professor, Department of Diagnostics and General Care, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Kiwako Izumi, DDS, PhD
- Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Satoru Ozeki, DDS, PhD
- Professor, Section of Oral Oncology, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Tetsuro Ikebe, PhD
- Professor, Section of Oral Surgery, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Ikebe: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, 2-15-1 Tamura, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0193, Japan

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