| Le Fort Fracture
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Description
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Front View
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Side View
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Stability
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| 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)
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Stable
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| Type II |
- Pyramidal fracture through central maxilla and hard palate
- Movement of hard palate and nose occurs, but not the eyes
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Can be stable or unstable fracture
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| Type 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
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Unstable
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| Type IV |
- Le Fort III plus involvement of frontal bone
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Unstable
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