Midfacial fractures Flashcards
What is the most likely facial structure that sustains trauma?
Nasal complex
What are the limits to the midface?
Zygomatic Frontal suture
Maxillary dental occlusal surface
What zygomatic complex is most likely to be fractured?
Left side
The paired _____ articulate with the frontal bone
and the maxilla.
nasal bones
The central location of the nose and its prominence on
the facial skeleton make ______ fractures the most
common facial fracture.
nasal bone
The ______ forms the midline support
structure of the nose.
nasal septum
The bony portion of the nasal septum consists of
the perpendicular plate of the _____ bone
posterosuperiorly and the _____ bone posteroinferiorly.
ethmoid; vomer
The ____ and _____ bones form the bony
floor of the nasal cavity.
maxilla and the palatine
The ___ and ______ forceps, are designed to reduce the displaced septum and impacted nasal bones.
The Asch and the Walsham
The maxilla is less dense and houses the
paranasal sinuses.
The ______ is classically described as a quadrilateral bone that articulates with the temporal, sphenoidal, frontal, and maxillary bones, thus creating 4 different sutures
zygoma
The _______ of the orbit is made of: Maxillary bone and part of
zygoma bounded laterally by the inferior orbital fissure
and small part of the ethmoid bone
Floor of orbit
Optic nerve (CN-II), enters the orbit ________
to the true apex!
superio-medially
Bones forming the _______:
Frontal, Zygomatic, Ethmoid, Lacrimal,
Maxilla, Palatal, Sphenoid
Orbit
The shape of the ____ is like a Four-sided
pyramid or cone
orbit
