Craniofacial dissociation is seen in: (A) Le Fo 1 fracture, (B) Le Fo 2 fracture, (C) Le Fo 3 fracture, (D) Tripod fracture
Answer is C. In Le Fo 3 fracture there is a complete separation of facial bones from the cranial bones. The fracture line passes through the root of nose, ethmofrontal junction, superior orbital fissure, lateral wall of the orbit, frontozygomatic and temporozygomatic sutures and the upper pa of pterygoid plates Ref: Textbook of diseases of ENT, PL Dhingra, 7th edition, pg no. 207