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.