Accurate Assessment
Comprehensive diagnosis relies on skill and technology, from imaging to medical modelling. A maxillofacial consultant is qualified in medicine and dentistry, so where required, considers both aspects simultaneously.
Facial surgeons need to understand the impact of trauma on developing bone structure and dentition. They treat the injury, whilst thinking several years ahead, perhaps decades ahead.
Our faces are our gateway to the world and a path for all our body needs to survive and thrive. Understanding the multi faceted impact an injury can have is the key to effective, long lasting treatment.
A Considered Approach
Similar thoughts apply across trauma types, although nose fractures are a prevalent childhood injury. As with other paediatric fractures, elasticity of the bone and quick healing can make them seem minor but they may not be.
Asymmetry in looks, or ideal breathing might not come through a natural healing process alone. Airway obstruction is a key concern in childhood trauma, apart from reducing an active life, this can affect cognitive development.
Jaw injuries are the next most common problem, especially in older children, although still not typical of adult trauma. The pattern of injuries tends to differ from adults and often brings implications for dental development.
Treatment At Our Clinic
Childhood trauma patients are seen by a leading maxillofacial consultant. They are there to provide solutions and understand the level of concern facial injury brings, for children, or their families.
All the time you need will be available, to discuss identified conditions, or suitable treatment. In depth diagnosis leads to the creation of a detailed treatment plan, which all are involved in.
Every specialist skill required will be part of the plan, normally in house at our London clinic. There are no age barriers to paediatric maxillofacial treatment, infants, children, or adolescents are made welcome.
However complex, or straightforward injuries are, one ethos always leads the way. Children are not small adults, they need unique care.
