Data sources and research strategy
The search strategies for this systematic review was based on the
descriptors (MeSH Terms) “Zygomatic-maxillary complex. 1-point
fixation. Fracture stability. Complications. Aesthetics” , with
publications from 2010 to 2020, in order to analyze the most recent
scientific publications. The research was carried out in June 2020 and
developed at SCOPUS (Elsevier and non-Elsevier database), PUBMED
(MEDLINE biomedical literature, life science magazines, and online
books) and SCIENCE DIRECT (Elsevier database), including the National
Institutes of Health RePORTER Grant database and clinical trial records.
In addition, a combination of the keywords with the Booleans “OR”, AND
and the operator “NOT” was used to target scientific articles of
interest. The title and abstracts was examined under all conditions. The
research structure used in the databases is shown in Table 2.