1988 Volume 34 Issue 4 Pages 682-686
It is occasionally difficult to treat a medial or lateral rotated zygomatic fracture by the closed method. Open reduction leads the better stability of fragments after operation. The relapse of the zygomatic corpus is, however, liable to occure, when only wire ligature on fronto-zygomatic suture and maxillo-zygomatic suture are employed.
The reason for this is that masseteric muscle adheres from zygomatic corpus to arch. In our clinic, the use of mini plate has given good results to such cases. The mini plate is fitted to the infra-orbital region for the medial rotated fragment and to the fronto-zygomatic suture region for the lateral rotated fragment. This method shows rigid fixation, stability and resistance against relapse after surgery. Four representative cases given in this paper.
