Peña MY, Rodríguez PLM, Lagoa MJG, Méndez VY, Batista ST

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Young people´s facial traumatisms are increasing. Most common causes are physical aggression, traffic and occupational accidents. Facial bones are exposed to injuries, due to their location next to eyes. A patient with zygomatico-maxillary fracture presents: regional pain, double vision with upper movement of the head, and poor visual acuity. An effective treatment within the 10 days following to trauma, is the best way for good results. A 50-year-old male attended hospital, right after having a traffic accident. The consequences: facial edema, hematoma, visual weakness in the committed eye, and difficulty to move his head up. He was diagnose with maxillary fracture based clinical and radiographic characteristics. He was transferred immediately to facial surgery service, and he was operated for shortening the fracture, without complication.