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Even with the most accurate techniques of bone reconstruction, there are still situations where enophthalmos is present postoperatively, and it may be produced by intraorbital soft tissue atrophy. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the orbital soft tissue after posttraumatic reconstruction of the orbital walls\u2019 fractures. Ten patients diagnosed and treated for unilateral orbital fractures were included in this prospective study. A postoperative CT scan of the head region with thin slices (0.6 mm) and soft and bone tissue windows was performed after at least 6 months. After data processing, the STL files were exported, and the bony volume, intraorbital fat tissue volume, and the muscular tissue volume were measured. The volumes of the reconstructed orbit tissues were compared with the volumes of the healthy orbit tissues for each patient. Our findings conclude that a higher or a lower grade of fat and muscular tissue loss is present in all cases of reconstructed orbital fractures. This can stand as a guide for primary or secondary soft tissue augmentation in orbital reconstruction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jpm12081210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,25]],"date-time":"2022-07-25T21:20:59Z","timestamp":1658784059000},"page":"1210","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Prospective Evaluation of Intraorbital Soft Tissue Atrophy after Posttraumatic Bone Reconstruction: A Risk Factor for Enophthalmos"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Cristian","family":"Dinu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0341-3754","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tiberiu","family":"Tamas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gabriela","family":"Agrigoroaei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sebastian","family":"Stoia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6123-4538","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Horia","family":"Opris","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Simion","family":"Bran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gabriel","family":"Armencea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Avram","family":"Manea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, Faculty of Dentistry, \u201cIuliu Ha\u021bieganu\u201d University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"161","DOI":"10.1097\/00002341-199905000-00004","article-title":"Repair of orbital floor fractures with hydroxyapatite block scaffolding","volume":"15","author":"Lemke","year":"1999","journal-title":"Ophthal. 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