Surgical Approaches to the Orbit in Primary and Secondary Reconstruction

Ellis, Edward III DDS, MS

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Address for correspondence Edward Ellis III, DDS, MS, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. MC 7908, San Antonio, TX 78229, [email protected]

Facial Plastic Surgery 30(5):p 537-544, October 2014. | DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1394100

Abstract

The key to orbital surgery is exposure of the bony orbit. This article presents, in a stepwise fashion, the subtarsal and transconjunctival approaches to the orbital floor and medial wall.