[Surgical treatment of fractures of the mandibular condyle complicated by dislocation of the head].

Results of the operative treatment of 42 patients with fractures of the condylar process complicated by a dislocation of the head are analyzed in different terms after trauma. The method of choice in patients with fresh fractures in thought to be the surgical setting of the mandible head followed by osteosynthesis. With wrong fixation, old non-united fractures and false articulations the operation of the head replantation is recommended.