[Prejudice related to facial injuries]

These related prejudices primarily include cosmetic handicap and pain, and represent a non-negligible part of the compensations paid to patients suffering facial injury. For the specialists, cosmetic prejudice raises problems of indications for surgical repair, and more particularly for assessment of the damage sustained. Attempts have been made to evaluate the suffering endured, but the scales that have been worked out are probably not perfectly adapted to this type of lesions. Despite the subjective character of such prejudices, the epidemiological studies that were carried out permit to conclude to a certain uniformity of the evaluations.