The current medical literature provides conflicting evidence as to the benefits of operative or conservative management of displaced condylar head fractures. Whilst conservative treatment has few risks in itself, most of the evidence would suggest that outcomes are not quite as good as operative management. Operative treatment has complications that are not presented by conservative treatment, such as the risk of infection or facial nerve injury and therefore it is important to demonstrate that such treatment has sufficient benefits to merit it's consideration, and to properly inform the patients about the benefits and risks of treatment. When patients present with these injuries it is currently difficult to provide them with good evidence for them to make an informed decision with, as to whether to undergo surgery or not. At present the patient is expected to make a decision as to whether to have surgery or not based on this limited knowledge, and it is the investigator's experience with consulting these patients and the questions they asked that has demonstrated the need for and guided the design of the trial focusing on a patient related outcome quality of life measure, rather than the common objective measures.#