title: Late surgical treatment of posttraumatic mandibular deformity.
abstract: Delays in treatment may complicate the treatment of mandibular trauma, leading to a bone healing in an abnormal position and to a posttraumatic mandibular deformity such as malunion, malocclusion, and asymmetry. All these features may make delayed treatment a challenging issue. Therefore, early reduction and fixation of displaced mandibular fractures is mandatory to allow precocious healing and return to the normal function. In this article, we describe a patient treated in our unit for a diagnosed posttraumatic malocclusion after lack of primary trauma treatment.
authors.affiliation: From the *Division of Maxillofacial Surgery, Head and Neck Department, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; and †Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center/Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boffano
authors.forename: Cesare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gallesio
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Roccia
authors.forename: Tymour
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Forouzanfar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008337:Mandibular Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed