Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. The aim of our study was to determine the association between specific comorbidities and COPD severity.
Methods: Pulmonologists included patients with COPD using a web-site questionnaire.
Endeavoring to present, within a few pages, an exhaustive work of all the surgical proposals, regarding the multitude of ethiopathogeneses, is quite utopic. The author considers the evaluation of the asymmetrical patient and underlines in the complementary examinations the advantage of 3D tomodensitometry. A chapter is devoted to presurgical orthodontic preparation aimed at counteracting the compensations, which affect the maxillary and mandibular alveolar support.
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