36 year old facial fracture is repair possible?

Posted by tgs351440 @tgs351440, Sep 4 11:53am

Can a 36 year old facial(cheekbone) fracture, that is now causing double vision be corrected?
Back in 1989 a softball thrown at high speed fractured my cheek bone(3 breaks), the doctor thought leaving it was ok. A slight inward movement of bone was not that noticeable, however overtime I’m seeing double when looking left. One image on top of the other. Eye doctor says bone is limiting muscle movement.
All the doctors I’ve contacted locally so no to working on this. Only if the fracture was fresh would they consider operating.
Is there a doctor anywhere in the U S who could handle this? Perhaps a physician experienced with old injury cases?
I’m may be resigned to double vision in old age there are worse things.

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tgs have you spoken with plastic surgeons? There may be no one qualified in your town. Gather all your records and send them out. Any images get the CD and the written report. It's hard to image that there aren't lots of surgeons up to the surgery. Do these doctors say why they are saying no?

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I agree. Are you in a small town, city, rural area? Consider a large referral area hospital specialist. If you mention the town you are in, perhaps someone here can direct you to the closest facility.

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I agree. Are you in a small town, city, rural area? Consider a large referral area hospital specialist. If you mention the town you are in, perhaps someone here can direct you to the closest facility.

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I was thinking the same....a large teaching hospital like Mayo, John's Hopkins, Stanford, etc

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tgs have you spoken with plastic surgeons? There may be no one qualified in your town. Gather all your records and send them out. Any images get the CD and the written report. It's hard to image that there aren't lots of surgeons up to the surgery. Do these doctors say why they are saying no?

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So far I’ve only contacted Huntsville AL and one doctor in Birmingham Alabama.

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I agree. Are you in a small town, city, rural area? Consider a large referral area hospital specialist. If you mention the town you are in, perhaps someone here can direct you to the closest facility.

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So far just Huntsville and Birmingham Alabama. I’m gonna try larger cities.

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I was thinking the same....a large teaching hospital like Mayo, John's Hopkins, Stanford, etc

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Sounds good thanks everyone

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A quick search of Alabama produced these hospitals

UAB hospitals
USA health university hospital
Huntsville hospital
Baptist medical center south (Montgomery)

UAB in burmingham and USA health university hospital in mobile were noted to be especially notable

Of course this comes from internet so approach with a bit of caution and do your own research

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Profile picture for laura1970 @laura1970

A quick search of Alabama produced these hospitals

UAB hospitals
USA health university hospital
Huntsville hospital
Baptist medical center south (Montgomery)

UAB in burmingham and USA health university hospital in mobile were noted to be especially notable

Of course this comes from internet so approach with a bit of caution and do your own research

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Since the damage was structural and not purely cosmetic in nature I wonder if a maxillofacial surgeon is the place to start. Myoms.org is a resource for your research. Lots of good information you can search for a surgeon there under facial injury and trauma. Best of luck to you.

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Since the damage was structural and not purely cosmetic in nature I wonder if a maxillofacial surgeon is the place to start. Myoms.org is a resource for your research. Lots of good information you can search for a surgeon there under facial injury and trauma. Best of luck to you.

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Thanks will search these avenues.😊

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The problem is that they can overcorrect with surgery. That is why they avoided double vision.
Did anyone do the tape up your eye lid test? turns out my eye muscles were the culprit for part of my double vision. It comes with age. So there was a super simple eye muscle tucking "ptosis" . Visit an Ophthalmologist's office that does eye surgeries as well. Or get a referral to one from the general ophthalmologist. Due to the limited muscle movement, your muscles may have weakened over time and that can be easily adjusted. @tgs351440 - ironically I was in an eye surgeons office for many years who did major surgeries for children who were crosseyed or had strabismus (I have strabismus) but my eyes weren't ENOUGH turned in one of the two directions (horizontal and vertical). Turns out it wasn't an EYE surgeon I needed - it was a eye LID surgeon! It was covered under insurance.

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