The Role of telemedicine in Maxillo-Facial trauma

In this work based on the role of telemedicine in maxillo-facial traumas the Authors focused however the necessity of a multicentricity for the study of trauma in sense of a multidisciplinarity – for the inner necessity of the trauma which often consists in a politrauma that requests more specialistic evaluations – and in the sense of logistically , due to the necessity for the geographic extension of the territory and due of the fact that the Maxillo-Facial Surgery is little extended in only two places in this region Sicilia, sited one in Messina and another in Palermo . Here the necessity even in the small peripheral centers to ensure a first specialistic evaluation – at a distance and more immediate than a transfer – of the necessity of surgery or not of a case , and the possible degree of urgency (deferrable/not deferrable) of a surgical need , avoiding unnecessary transfers of patients or not already stabilized in acute . All in consideration of a reduction of time for intervention for the patient , and a reduction of the costs for assistance and of the health expenditure.