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Record W4415513715 · doi:10.51985/jbumdc2025632

Comparison of a Single 2mm Locking Miniplate with Two 2mm Non-Locking Miniplates in Symphysis or Para symphysis Fracture of Mandible

2025· article· W4415513715 on OpenAlex
Anam Shahzad, S. Ali, Muhammad Mustafa, Adnan Haider, Fatima Imran, Kashif Adnan

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Bahria University Medical and Dental College · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicFacial Trauma and Fracture Management
Canadian institutionsCollège Montmorency
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSymphysisMandibular symphysisMandible (arthropod mouthpart)Statistical significanceSoft tissueBone healingOral and maxillofacial surgery

Abstract

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Objective: To assess the treatment success between locking and non-locking miniplates when used for the constructive repair of mandibular symphysis and parasymphysis fractures of the mandible. Study Design and Setting: This study is designed as a quasi-experimental conducted in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of Punjab Dental Hospital and De Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore. Methodology: This quasi-experimental was conducted in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of Punjab Dental Hospital and De Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore. It enrolled 60 patients into each group consisting of locking and non-locking variants for a total of 120 participants. The data was evaluated through SPSS version 25 by applying the Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA test. Results: Fracture stability was achieved in of patients in the locking miniplate group compared to in the non-locking group, with statistical significance (p=0.040). The need for additional IMFs was significantly lower in the locking group, with only required additional fixation, compared to the non-locking group (p=0.00095). Pain scores, measured using the VAS, were significantly lower in the locking miniplate group compared to the non-locking group with a p-value of 0.0001. Soft tissue healing was significantly better in the locking group, showing proper healing compared to the non-locking group (p=0.008). Conclusion: The superior locking miniplate design achieves better fracture stability through increased mechanical stability as well as reducing postoperative discomfort and improving the healing of soft tissue structures, thus establishing their advantage over traditional non-locking miniplate methods

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.540
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it