Maysa Nogueira de Barros Melo
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Lidyane Nunes Pantoja
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Sara Juliana de Abreu de Vasconcellos
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Viviane Almeida Sarmento
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Christiano Sampaio Queiroz
This paper describes a case of mouth opening limitation, secondary to a facial trauma by cutting-piercing instrument, whose fragments had not been diagnosed in the immediate posttrauma care. Description of an unusual surgical maneuver and a literature review are presented.