Contemporary management of maxillofacial ballistic trauma

Publication date: Available online 20 May 2017
Source:British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Author(s): J. Breeze, D. Tong, A. Gibbons
Ballistic maxillofacial trauma in the UK is fortunately relatively rare, and generally involves low velocity handguns and shotguns. Civilian terrorist events have, however, shown that all maxillofacial surgeons need to understand how to treat injuries from improvised explosive devices. Maxillofacial surgeons in the UK have also been responsible for the management of soldiers evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in this review we describe the newer types of treatment that have evolved from these conflicts, particularly that of damage-control maxillofacial surgery.



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