Eye Orbital Floor Fracture

You can have a fracture in one or all of these parts of the eye socket.

Eye orbital floor fracture.

This is a fracture of the paper thin floor of the eye socket with the bony rim surrounding the eye remaining intact. The floor is likely to collapse because the bones of the roof and lateral walls are robust. Fractures of the orbital floor are common. The floor of the eye socket ruptures or cracks resulting in a small hole in the eye socket s floor which can trap some parts of the eye muscles and its surrounding.

A blowout fracture of the orbital floor is defined as a fracture of the orbital floor in which the inferior orbital rim is intact. About 85 of traumatic eye injuries including eye socket fractures happen by accident during contact sports at work in car crashes or while doing home repair projects. Orbital blowout fracture or indirect orbital floor fracture. This is when a blow or trauma to the orbital rim pushes the bones back causing the bones of the eye socket floor buckle to downward.

It is estimated that about 10 of all facial fractures are isolated orbital wall fractures the majority of these being the orbital floor and that 30 40 of. An orbital blowout fracture is a traumatic deformity of the orbital floor or medial wall typically resulting from impact of a blunt object larger than the orbital aperture or eye socket most commonly the inferior orbital wall i e.