Ricerc@Sapienza

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rapidly changing our habits. To date, April 12, 2020, the virus has reached 209 nations, affecting 1.8 million people and causing more than 110,000 deaths. Maxillofacial surgery represents an example of a specialty that has had to adapt to this outbreak, because of the subspecialties of oncology and traumatology. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of this outbreak on the specialty of maxillofacial surgery and how the current situation is being managed on a worldwide scale.

Purpose. The study aims to investigate the ability of maxillofacial surgery to reduce strabismus and improve ocular clinical symptomato- logy in patients with fracture of the medial or lateral floor of the orbit, or both, and to evaluate such abilities relative to the temporal distance between trauma and surgery.
Materials and methods. 25 patients with traumatic diplopia were evaluated by CT, Goldman manual field of view, Hess-Lan- caster test, eye examination and orthoptic examination, before and after surgery.