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Fractures of the upper jaw in children
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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In children, more often fractures of the upper jaw along the line of Le Fort II and Le Fort III, combined, as a rule, with a craniocerebral trauma (damage to the base of the skull, less often - a concussion of the brain), damage to the nasal and zygomatic bones, lower jaw.
In most cases, such damage occurs as a result of falling under transport, falling from a tree or roof.
In children, fractures of the upper jaw are more often subbasal, injected.
[Treatment ie fracture of the maxilla in children
For the treatment of fractures of the upper jaw they use plastic laboratory individual tires with extraoral rods - "whiskers". It is also necessary to carry out antibiotic therapy in order to prevent suppuration of the damaged follicles of the teeth and subsequent cicatrial contraction, which can delay the development of the jaw.