When to use THE PLATE ?

• Unstable Fractures

• Articular Fractures

• Fractures with associated lesions

• (articular, ligamentous, nervous, vascular)

• Volar metaphysis Fractures (fracture of Smith)

• Volar Fractures with rotation of lunate facet

• After failure of the closed reduction

• High energy Fracture-Dislocation

• Later diagnosed Lesions

• Fixation of the osteotomies