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Open reduction and internal rigid fixation of subcondylar fractures via an intraoral approach
J Lachner1, J T Clanton, P D Waite
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
Extraoral open reduction and rigid fixation of mandibular subcondylar fractures is controversial among surgeons. An intraoral approach with a percutaneous trocar and miniplates demonstrated satisfactory reduction. This technique can be more easily performed than a preauricular or submandibular incision, and risk of facial nerve damage is diminished. Early function with proper vertical dimension was restored with minimal postoperative morbidity.