Re: RC: fracture of facial crest

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In a message dated 5/24/00 10:12:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
guest@endurance.net writes:

<< dovie pickering dovie@aci.net
 Has anyone out there had a horse with
 a facial crest fracial?  My horse ran into
 a fence. It cut her face open and the vet said that 
 she had broken this part of her head.  Did not have a lot
 to say about so enlighten me.  Dovie >>

This is not an uncommon sort of injury.  It can often result in a depression 
at the site of the fracture, but in most cases this is just a blemish and has 
no particular functional significance.  If there is not much displacement, 
some heal with no particular visible aftereffects, too.

Heidi