Facial Trauma
Facial trauma is bone or soft tissue damage to the face caused by motor vehicle accidents, assaults including gunshots, sports injuries, falls, chemical exposures, thermal burns or animal bites.
Symptoms:
- Changes in feeling over the face.
- Deformed or uneven face or facial bones.
- Difficulty breathing through the nose due to swelling and bleeding.
- Double vision.
- Missing teeth.
- Swelling or bruising around the eyes that may cause vision problems.
Life-threatening complications follow maxillofacial trauma causing airway obstruction. The onset can be sudden following aspiration of a foreign body, or after significant soft-tissue damage and swelling.
Treatment of maxillofacial injury involves
- Controlled bleeding.
- Creating a clear airway.
- Treat the fracture and fix broken bone segments.
- Prevent scars, if possible.
- Prevent long-term double vision, sunken eyes or cheek bones.
- Rule out other injuries.
