Sandbox: Difference between revisions

No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 6: Line 6:
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Stability'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Stability'''
|-
|-
|Type I||||[[File:LeFort1e.png|120px]]||[[File:LeFort1a.png|150px]]||
|Type I||
*Transverse fracture separating body of maxilla from pterygoid plate and nasal septum<ref name="tintinalli">Tintinalli 7th Edition, pgs 1730-1738</ref>
*Only hard palate and teeth move (when rock hard palate while stabilizing forehead)
||[[File:LeFort1e.png|120px]]||[[File:LeFort1a.png|150px]]||
|-
|-
|Type II||||[[File:LeFort2b.png|120px]]||[[File:LeFort2a.png|150px]]||
|Type II||||[[File:LeFort2b.png|120px]]||[[File:LeFort2a.png|150px]]||
Line 13: Line 16:
|}
|}
===Le Fort I===
===Le Fort I===
*Transverse fracture separating body of maxilla from pterygoid plate and nasal septum<ref name="tintinalli">Tintinalli 7th Edition, pgs 1730-1738</ref>
 
*Only hard palate and teeth move (when rock hard palate while stabilizing forehead)
*Stable fracture
*Stable fracture



Revision as of 06:42, 10 May 2019

Le Fort Fracture Description Front View Side View Stability
Type I
  • Transverse fracture separating body of maxilla from pterygoid plate and nasal septum[1]
  • Only hard palate and teeth move (when rock hard palate while stabilizing forehead)
LeFort1e.png LeFort1a.png
Type II LeFort2b.png LeFort2a.png
Type III LeFort3b.png LeFort3a.png

Le Fort I

  • Stable fracture

Le Fort II

  • Pyramidal fracture through central maxilla and hard palate
  • Movement of hard palate and nose occurs, but not the eyes
  • Can be stable or unstable fracture

Le Fort III

  • Craniofacial dysjunction (fracture through frontozygomatic sutures, orbit, nose, ethmoids)
  • Entire face shifts with globes held in place only by optic nerve)
  • Dish face deformity on lateral view
  • Unstable fracture

Le Fort IV

  • Le Fort III plus involvement of frontal bone
  • Unstable fracture
  1. Tintinalli 7th Edition, pgs 1730-1738