Clinical Controversies in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Part One

s s variety of surgical approaches to the orbital floor nd infraorbital rim exist and can be conveniently ategorized as either transcutaneous or transconjuncival. These approaches are widely used for exposure, valuation, and treatment of orbital trauma, patholgy, and cosmesis. While we use both methods, we eel there are advantages of each depending on the urgical plan. For purposes of this article, we will ssume that the infraorbital rim and/or floor of the rbit require exposure. We admit that transcutaneous pproaches to the orbit may be less useful than the ransconjunctival approach when access to the meial wall of the orbit is required. Nevertheless, we ontend that both transcutaneous and transconjuncival approaches can be used for access to the orbital oor and infraorbital rim, and it is for such access that e base the following argument.