[Prejudice related to facial injuries]

Rev Stomatol Chir Maxillofac. 1990;91(6):473-6.
[Article in French]

Abstract

These related prejudices primarily include cosmetic handicap and pain, and represent a non-negligible part of the compensations paid to patients suffering facial injury. For the specialists, cosmetic prejudice raises problems of indications for surgical repair, and more particularly for assessment of the damage sustained. Attempts have been made to evaluate the suffering endured, but the scales that have been worked out are probably not perfectly adapted to this type of lesions. Despite the subjective character of such prejudices, the epidemiological studies that were carried out permit to conclude to a certain uniformity of the evaluations.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Attitude
  • Esthetics
  • Facial Injuries / economics
  • Facial Injuries / psychology*
  • Facial Injuries / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Insurance / economics
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prejudice
  • Surgery, Plastic