Abstract
Perhaps no defect is as emotionally devastating as a deformity of the face caused by trauma.1 An individual who even minutes before led a normal life may have the focal point of their self-image permanently disfigured. This can leave enormous psychological as well as physical scars, even beyond those associated with congenital deformities whose victims have never known a different life. Yet posttraumatic defects have rarely been the focus of epidemiologic or demographic investigations. Their description has been relegated to individual case reports, anecdotal experiences, or review articles that discuss avulsion defects in general terms. Thus a description of the etiology, distribution, and classification of the traumatic deformity becomes a difficult endeavor based only upon intuitive reasoning and individual institutional experiences.
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Haug, R.H., Morgan, J.P. (2002). Etiology, Distribution, and Classification of Craniomaxillofacial Deformities: Traumatic Defects. In: Greenberg, A.M., Prein, J. (eds) Craniomaxillofacial Reconstructive and Corrective Bone Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22427-5_5
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