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A 21-year-old healthy man presented to the emergency department with mouth pain and bleeding, after being struck with a gun on his right lower jaw. Physical examination revealed upward displacement of the left half of his mandible with malocclusion on biting and mild bleeding from the fracture line between his central incisors (Panel A). He had no other intraoral lacerations or fractures of the teeth. Computed tomography showed a comminuted fracture of the left mandible just lateral to the symphysis mentalis, extending vertically through the alveolar ridge near the midline (Panel B), and a comminuted fracture of the right mandibular . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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