Orbital Floor Repair Cost

Blow out fracture repair.

Orbital floor repair cost.

Many fractures of the orbit a common occurrence with facial trauma never require surgery which is customarily performed in patients with restricted motility diplopia and enophthalmos. The challenge of orbital floor repair is particular in the most posterior part and in the transition zone with the medial wall. Management of orbital floor fractures is still debated and controversial. The aim of this study was to report our experience about the repair of the orbital floor fractures and new technical findings.

This becomes even more difficult to visualize in dissection further posteriorly. Informed consent orbital floor fracture repair surgery 2012 american society of plastic surgeons purchasers of the informed consent resource cd are given a limited license to modify documents contained herein and reproduce the modified version for use in the purchaser s own practice only. Orbital blowout fracture or indirect orbital floor fracture. This is a fracture of the paper thin floor of the eye socket with the bony rim surrounding the eye remaining intact.

The inferior wall or orbital floor is formed by the upper jawbone maxilla part of the cheek bone zygomatic and a small part of the hard palate palatine bone. Repair of an orbital floor fracture by the transconjunctival technique and the use of porous polyethylene implant stabilized with cyanoacrylate glue has many advantages including simplicity of the technique excellent structural support shorter operative time and cost effectiveness. The transition zone between the medial orbital wall and the orbital floor is difficult to visualize intraoperatively. Etiology fractures of the orbital floor are common.

The floor of the eye socket ruptures or cracks resulting in a small hole in the eye socket s floor which can trap some parts of the eye muscles and its surrounding. Fractures to the inferior. It is estimated that about 10 of all facial fractures are isolated orbital wall fractures the majority of these being the orbital floor and that 30 40 of all.