%0 Journal Article
%T Presencia de exostosis orales en pacientes de la ciudad de Temuco, Chile
%A Fuentes Fern¨¢ndez
%A R.
%A Borie Echevarr¨ªa
%A E.
%A Sanhueza Campos
%A A.
%A Rebolledo Soto
%A K.
%A Parra Villagran
%A P.
%J Avances en Odontoestomatolog¨ªa
%D 2012
%I Ediciones Avances M¨¦dico Dentales, S.L.
%R 10.4321/S0213-12852012000200002
%X the torus comes from latin word that means circular prominence or tumor and which is not considered like a pathological condition. 159 patients were evaluated randomly in the dental clinics of universidad de la frontera, temuco, to determine the prevalence of exostoses on this population. these patients filled a tab in order to relate this condition with some associated factors. a prevalence of 5.66% was observed with predominance in female gender, in mandibular zone. while certain factors studied showed no trends except for clinical features, none exhibited statistically significant results.
%K tori
%K torus palatinus
%K torus mandibularis
%K exostoses
%K anatomical condition.
%U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0213-12852012000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en