Maxillofacail Injury
Maxillofacail Injury
Maxillofacail Injury
Dr gurey
Anatomy
• Upper Third
– Frontal bones
• Middle Third
– Zygomas, orbits, maxillae, nasal bones
• Lower Third
– Mandible
Evaluation and Diagnosis
• ABCs
– Airway
– High rate of c-spine fractures if facial trauma
• PE
– scalp, forehead
– Orbits/vision, zygomas, nasal bones, septum, maxillae
– Teeth, mandible, occlusion
– Sensation, facial nerve function
• CT is golden diagnosis
Airway Management
• Posture
• Chin lift or jaw thrust
• Oral airway
• Nasopharangeal
• Intubate
• Surgical
Tracheostomy
• tracheostomy is an opening surgically created
through the neck into the trachea (windpipe)
to allow direct access to the breathing tube
Secondary Survey
• History
Head to toe
Clean up
Good records
Re-evaluate
Clinical Signs and Symptoms
of Fractures
• Pain
• Swelling and bruising
• Deformity
• Loss of function
• Abnormal mobility
• Neurovascular disturbance
• Deranged occlusion
Assessment
• Soft Tissue Injury
• Bone Injury
• Soft Tissue Loss
• Bone Loss
• Teeth
Initial Management
• Antibiotics
• Analgesia
• Tetanus
• Clean and dress wounds
• Maintain airway
• Monitor
Gibbons’ Rules
• Systematic examination
• Midface trauma check eyes and nose
• CT head and neck
• Clean soft tissues.
Early management of soft
tissue injury
• Debride
• Preserve tissue
• Primary closure
• Delayed primary closure
Frontal Sinus
• Anterior/posterior table, comminution,
thickness
• the more central and the more severe the
fracture, more likely csf leakage
Frontal Sinus Repair
• Is exploration necessary? Is obliteration
necessary?
• Anterior wall for cosmesis
• Posterior wall to protect anterior cranial fossa
• If nasofrontal ducts involved may lead to
infection
• Obliteration via cranialization if posterior wall
severely comminuted
posterior table bone
• Severe injuries which result in disruption of
greater than 25% of the posterior table should
be considered for cranialization.
• This involves exposure of the entire sinus,
meticulous removal of all sinus mucosa, and
removal of the posterior table bone.
Midface fractures
• Midface fractures are common sequelae of motor
vehicle accidents, falls, assaults, and other blunt
trauma.
• Types of midface fracture or Le Fort classification
Le Fort classification
• Le Fort I or type 1
– Horizontal floating plate
• Le Fort II / type 2
– Pyramidal floating maxillery
• Le Fort III/ type 3
– Complete craniofacial separation floating face which
is transverse
Le Fort classification
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Midface
Midface Repair
Fractures of the midface are
treated surgically if they
cause
malocclusion, enophthalmos,
diplopia, infraorbital nerve
anesthesia, or
unacceptable cosmetic
deformity. Surgical treatment
usually consists of
internal stabilization using fine
screws and plates.
Nasal fracture
Nasal bone fractures classified :
Type I)
Simple without displacement;
Type II)
Simple with displacement
Type III)
Comminuted with depression.
NOE repair
• Difficult, esp if comminuted
• Ensure positioning and fixation of canthal ligament to prevent
telecanthus
• If medial canthal ligaments attached to central bone– stablize
bone to surrouding skeleton
• If comminuted expose ligament and fix to frontal bone
Mandible
• Symphyseal, parasymphyseal,
body, angle, ramus, condyle,
coronoid
• Favorable vs unfavorable:
favorable when muscles tend
to draw bony fragments
together.