Relationship Between Facial Bone Fractures and the Risk of Posttraumatic Complications: A Hypothesis on the Cushion Effect of the Facial Skeletons in Temporal Bone Fractures.

Concomitant FB fractures reduced the risk of the occurrence of delayed facial palsy and posttraumatic vertigo in injured patients with TB fracture. Particularly, an anterior force may be reduced by the cushion effect of the bony fracture.