Contains mental foramen Forms posterior roof of mouth Small

Contains mental foramen Forms posterior roof of mouth Small bone in medial wall of orbit Forms a very small portion of inferior orbit Contains large sinus inferior to orbit Assume that an orbit of a skull was damaged in an accident. Which bones of a skull might need to be considered for reconstruction in an orbital surgery?

Solution

The orbit is a pear shaped socket in the skull, the top of which is called roof and bottom of which is called floor

most common among the orbital injuries are facial fractures, blow out fractures of malar complex.

Generally the maxillofacial fractures are encoutered in the skull injuries.

so genarally in the orcital surgery maxillo facial bones, chik cones are cnsidered.