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Abstract
A prospective study was performed to illustrate the impact of computed tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of different types of facial fractures.
Twenty patients with facial injuries were used for this study. Pre-operative diagnostic evaluation were performed by clinical examination, conventional plain radiographs and computed tomographic examination for each patient.
Under general anaesthesia, surgery was performed to reduce and immobilize the fracture according to the type of fracture.
Post-operative evaluation of the reduction was performed as follow:
a) Cases with close reduction without any intraosseous fixation was done by computed tomography.
b) Cases with transosseous fixation, rectilinear tomography was performed as a substitute to computed tomography.
As a diagnostic type, computed tomography was found to be the most accurate test in facial bone injury, especially complex fracture. It provided valuable information about the fractures, position of the fragments, and the extend of soft injury.