INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 1

Surgical Management of Bilateral Comminuted Mandible Fracture in a German Shepherd dog

  • Author:
  • V.S. Dabas, C.F. Chaudhari1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 113 to 114

1Department of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology and Obstetrics

Department of Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari - 396450 (Gujarat)

*Corresponding Author E-mail: vsdabas@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 20 September, 2013.

Abstract

A three yeras old German shepherd dog with fractured anterior part of lower jaw due automobile accident. Examination confirmed comminuted mandible fracture. The fracture was corrected surgically using Steinman's pinning and post-operative care. The wires were removed on 45th day post opeartively after complete bone healing.

Keywords

Automobile accident, mandibular fracture, steinman's pinning, wiring