“It’s hard to build but easy to destroy”. Such is the case with road traffic accidents which result in fractures of the face most often, fracturing the jaw bones and damaging associated structures. One cannot go back to their regular food habits if the fractured jaw isn’t operated on. Scary isn’t it? It is upto the Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon to re-approximate the fractures and refixes them inorder to give back the form of the jaw no matter how bad the fracture is.
Use of titanium plates and screws for fixation and bridging segments is the standard of care. What if there is a shattered bone segment? Fixing up such fractures is challenging at times. Surgeons use certain bone graft materials or substitutes inorder to replace the lost shattered bone segment. In one such case, we operated a 32yr old man met with a road traffic accident, leading to multiple fractures on his body including…
