Maxillofacial Trauma

Introduction Due to social, economic, cultural influences, traffic awareness and drunk habits, the incidence and epidemiologic causes of maxillofacial injury and facial fracture differ widely from region to region. Reports from different regions of Turkey also differ in etiological findings [1, 2]. According to a report from developed countries [3-6], violence is the main cause of facial fractures, mainly traffic accidents, pedestrian collisions, stumbles, sports and industrial accidents.

CT is a major technique for evaluating the physical condition of head - maxillofacial trauma that may be skull fracture or intracranial hemorrhage. It is also important to analyze some neurological syndromes, stroke, aneurysm, or to predict brain / cranial structural abnormalities. Although CT is known to be particularly important in the detection and study of mineralization defects, meningiomas usually adhere to the dura and tend to calcify, so meningiomas arise from the meninges It is also used for the diagnosis of a kind of tumor). . As shown in Figure 13, CT can inform people whether the tumor is entering the bone or hardening like a bone.

Oral surgery and maxillofacial surgery is a field of medicine to study management trauma through surgical methods, maxillary sinus disease, space occupied lesions, neurological effects, and developmental abnormalities. In this area, not only are the focus on various diseases related to the maxillofacial area, but also the general concept of surgery is deeply understood. In this course you can deepen your understanding of physiology, histology, biochemistry, microbiology, etc. with particular emphasis on oral surgery and maxillofacial surgery.

Oral surgery and maxillofacial surgery specializes in the treatment of many diseases, injuries and defects in hard tissues and soft tissues in the head, neck, face and oral cavity (oral cavity) and maxillofacial (maxillofacial and facial) areas. It is an internationally recognized specialty in surgery. Oral maxillofacial surgeon is a regional professional surgeon who treats the global regulating compounds of the craniofacial and maxillofacial surfaces, ie the anatomical areas of the mouth, jaw, face, skull, and related body structure.