Surgical management of facial trauma: facial reconstruction in the medical contexto

• Autor(a) principal: Juliano, Anna Vitória Ferreira Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Frazão, Luiz Felipe Neves, Vieira, Carolina Sharon Borges Soares, Inoue, Vitoria, Braz, Rafael Nery, dos Santos , Débora Barbosa, Ferreira, Erislaine dos Santos, Borges, Carolaine Pereira, da Silva, Luiz Pereira, Rocha, Juliana Lima Rodrigues, Silva, Paula Teixeira, Oliveira, Maria Eduarda Gibbon, Lobo, Maria Eduarda Almeida, Duarte, André Furtado, Ferreira, Lucas Franco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/335
• topic: Cirurgia de reconstrução; Lesão; Trauma.; Reconstruction surgery; Lesion; Trauma.; Cirugía de reconstrucción; Lesión; Trauma.

The aim of this study is to disassemble, through scientific articles and government exposure, the surgical management of facial trauma. And as secondary objectives, to understand the particularities of these injuries and understand the effects that oral and maxillofacial trauma entails in the lives of those affected. An in-depth search of articles was carried out in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and PubMed databases, with the following Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS): Reconstructive surgery; Lesion; Trauma. Articles were selected between the periods of 2000 to 2020, in English and Portuguese. It is concluded from the analysis of these studies that the complexity of the injuries caused by facial trauma can affect the treatment of those affected. Young people are the main victims of facial trauma, which, in turn, affects the aesthetics and psychological condition of those affected. For the best prognosis, the etiological agent, time of exposure of the lesion and the degree of contamination must be considered, in addition to the primordial need, the guarantee of airways.