Incidence of lingual nerve damage following surgical extraction of mandibular third molars with lingual flap retraction: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Joshua Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua Lee, Boxi Feng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: joshua.lee@uwa.edu.au

  Affiliations School of Allied Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8828-8955

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• Boxi Feng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua Lee, Boxi Feng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Allied Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

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• Joon Soo Park,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Allied Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2052-558X

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• Magdalen Foo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UWA Dental School, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

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• Estie Kruger

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

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