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8 Evidence-Based Clinical Decisions in Oral Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Oladimeji Adeniyi Akadiri and Wasiu Lanre Adeyemo Part III: Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Clinical Outcomes 9 Evidence-Based Issues in Maxillofacial Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Oladimeji Adeniyi Akadiri, Babatunde Olayemi Akinbami, and Abiodun Olubayo Fasola 10 Strengths and Limitations of the Evidence-Based Movement Aimed to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Dentistry and Oral Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Pier Francesco Nocini, Giuseppe Verlato, Daniele De Santis, Andrea Frustaci, Giovanni De Manzoni, Antonio De Gemmis, Guglielmo Zanotti, Giovanni Rigoni, Alessandro Cucchi, Luciano Canton, Vincenzo Bondì and Eleonora Schembri 11 Evidence-Based Decision for Pharmacological Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease and Alcohol Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Francesco Giuseppe Foschi, Fabio Caputo, Anna Chiara Dall’Aglio, Giorgio Zoli, Mauro Bernardi, Francesco Chiappellli, and Giuseppe Francesco Stefanini 12 Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, a Bibliometric Evidence-Based Approach to Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Ricardo Viana Bessa-Nogueira, Janaina Andrade Lima Salmos de Brito, Belmiro Cavalcanti do Egito Vasconcelos, and Richard Niederman 13 The Efficacy of Horizontal and Vertical Bone Augmentation Procedures for Dental Implants: A Cochrane Systematic Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Marco Esposito, Maria Gabriella Grusovin, Pietro Felice, Georgios Karatzopoulos, Helen V. Worthington, and Paul Coulthard Part IV: Conclusion: Toward Optimization of the Evidence-Based Paradigm in Medicine and Dentistry 14 Evidence-Based Medicine: What does it Mean and Where Are We Going? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Sergio Frustaci, Gian Maria Miolo, Angela Buonadonna, Diana Crivellari, and Simona Scalone 15 Future Avenues of Research Synthesis for Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Francesco Chiappelli Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249