[Current treatment of mandibular fractures in a general hospital center. What is the role of osteosynthesis with miniplates?].

Abstract

Treatment of mandibular fractures has raised passions among supporters of the miniaturized screw plate and partisans of steel wire bone suture combined with inter-maxillary blocking. This report deals with current attitudes towards therapy. Surgical techniques are summarized, the different indications for miniaturized screw plate outlined, and other simple methods confirmed as being effective described. Based on statistical analysis of cases treated over a period of 8 years, results of treatment of mandibular injuries are reviewed, advances in therapy discussed and the various indications outlined. The use of the miniaturized screw plate appears to provide an undoubted contribution to maxillofacial surgery, but it does not supplant other therapeutic procedures. The consensus of opinion at the present time appears to have become established for therapy of mandibular fractures, confirmatory evidence being supplied by data in recent published literature.

• Authors: M Vesse, B Courtois, E Pilz, C Coumel
• Journal: Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale (Rev Stomatol Chir Maxillofac) Vol. 86 Issue 2 Pg. 66-72 ( 1985) ISSN: 0035-1768 [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Traitement actuel des fractures mandibulaires dans un centre hospitalier général. Quelle place réserver aux ostéosynthèses par mini-plaques?
• PMID: 3890127 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Bone Plates
• Child
• Evaluation Studies as Topic
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Mandibular Fractures (classification, diagnostic imaging, surgery)
• Radiography, Panoramic
• Suture Techniques