title: 'Sutureless' transconjunctival approach for infraorbital rim fractures.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the ease and surgical outcome of using sutureless transconjunctival approach for repair of infra-orbital fractures.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective clinical case series.
  
  
  METHODS
  Totally 5 patients with infra-orbital rim or orbital floor fractures were selected and the fractures were accessed through a pre-septal transconjunctival incision. After reduction and fixation, the conjunctiva was just re-approximated and re-draped into position. Incidence of post-operative complications such as diplopia, lid retraction, eyelid dystopia, foreign body granuloma and poor conjunctival healing was assessed at intervals of 1 week, 15 days and a month post-operatively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No complications were observed in any of the 5 patients. Healing was satisfactory in all patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The sutureless technique appears to be a time saving and technically simpler viable alternative to multilayered suturing in orbital trauma with minimal post-operative complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, V. S. Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Vaibhav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nagaraj
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, V. S. Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Abhishek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, V. S. Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Madan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nanjappa
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, V. S. Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Keerthi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ramesh
keywords: Orbital fracture; sutureless; transconjunctival
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