Comparison of Operating Room Time Length With the Use of Virtual Surgical Planning Versus Conventional Treatment of Mandible Fractures

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patient refusal to participate in study
• •Infected mandible fracture
• •Closed reduction treatment of mandible fracture
• •Fractures older than 2-3 weeks at the time of treatment
• •Other concomitant mid-facial bone fractures (ie, zygomaticomaxillary complex (ZMC), Lefort fractures)
• •Other etiologies than trauma of the mandibular fracture or pathologic fracture secondary to benign or malignant pathology that may require resection
• •Pregnant patients will NOT be excluded from the study
• •Co-morbidities (auto-immune disease, osteoporosis, titanium or metal allergy, uncontrolled diabetes (A1c greater than 8)