Minerva stomatologica
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Minerva stomatologica · May 2014
Evaluation of scientific production in oral surgery in Italy from 1998 to 2012.
Dental research, especially in the field of oral surgery, showed a strong and significant increase during the last years. This was probably determined by the introduction among the clinicians of different therapeutic protocols through biomaterials engineering, and by the large broadcasting of scientific knowledge due to new media such as the internet. The aim of this work was to analyze the scientific production of a sample of Italian Oral Surgeons from 1998 to 2012. ⋯ The results reported in this bibliometric analysis show how scientific research increasingly pursued by clinicians in oral surgery in the last 15 years.