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I am Charles Thorne MD, a Plastic Surgeon with a subspecialty in Craniofacial Surgery and 20 years of experience in the surgical treatment of fractured (broken) facial bones.
Broken facial bones vary tremendously in location (nose, forehead, cheek bone, eye socket, upper jaw, lower jaw etc) and severity (a broken nose from a basketball game is very different from the injuries sustained in a major car accident). Consequently, the surgical approach differs tremendously and may involve a brief outpatient procedure to set a nose or a major in-patient procedure to reconstruct injuries involving many facial bones simultaneously.
The good news is that facial bone injuries, if treated promptly and appropriately, usually have an excellent outcome for the patients.
On the accompanying pages I will explain some of the common injuries and how we might approach them. I invite you to explore this site, view the patient photographs and CT scans, and see if you think I can help you.
The most common types of facial bone fractures are:
1. Frontal Sinus Fracture
2. Nasal Fracture
3. Naso-Orbital-Ethmoid Fracture (aka Naso-ethmoid-orbital)
4. Orbital Fracture (aka Blow-out fracture or Blow-in fracture)
5. Cheek Bone Fracture (aka Zygoma fracture, Tripod fracture, Trimalar fracture, Quadripod fracture, Orbitozygomatic complex fracture)
6. Upper jaw fractures (aka Maxillary fractures, Le Fort fractures, palatal fractures)
7. Lower jaw fractures (aka Mandible fractures)
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