The Role of Resorbable Plate and Artificial Bone Substitute in Reconstruction of Large Orbital Floor Defect

Figure 5

Pre- and postoperative CT views of a 38-year-old male patient who had a large orbital defect reconstructed with a resorbable plate and artificial bone substitute. Coronal view of preoperative CT showed a left-sided orbital floor defect of 4.2 cm² with inferior rectus muscle displacement (a). This patient had discomfort with upper gaze, but no extraocular muscle limitation. Eighteen-month postoperative CT scan (coronal view) showed a reconstructed orbital floor with thin bone compared with the opposite side (b). The sagittal plane of the pre- and postoperative CT images revealed a nearly anatomically reconstructed orbital floor with no orbital volume discrepancy (c, d).

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