Buccal Fat Pad Injury-Delayed Presentation

Archana Sinha; Saravanan Lakshmanan; Maneesh Singhal; Sushma Sagar

doi:10.1007/s12262-021-03146-w

Buccal Fat Pad Injury-Delayed Presentation

Indian J Surg. 2022 Oct;84(5):1103-1105. doi: 10.1007/s12262-021-03146-w. Epub 2021 Oct 19.

Authors

Archana Sinha¹, Saravanan Lakshmanan², Maneesh Singhal¹, Sushma Sagar³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery, All India, Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (CDER), All India, Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
³ Division of Trauma Surgery and Critical Care, JPN Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, 110029 India.

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has been a major challenge for health care services all around the world. With increasing COVID-19 cases and lockdown enforcement, there has been a significant delay in the presentation of patients in the emergency department; also the fear in people of contracting COVID-19 from the hospital is an additional factor. The following case report describes such an incidence of delay in presentation of buccal fat pad injury patient to the emergency department.

Keywords: Buccal fat pad injury; COVID-19; Oral injury; Oral surgery; Pediatric trauma; Plastic surgery; Trauma surgery.