Hi
Probably this question is for a surgical vet. When a splint has a brushing fracture and has fragments of bone , is the edge of the break a smooth line or rough ? I can explain why I’m asking but you wouldn’t want to know…
thanks.
Oh yes we would. We love explanations! The only thing we love more is a picture. 
I am not a vet, but have seen lots of splints
X-rays will tell you much more than strangers on the internet.
Is the splint hot or cold? Does a chip need to be removed?
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No I really need to know the smoothness of the splint fracture . Xrays aren’t it . And it’s not even about a horse but this guy :
An Aboriginal skull found in Australia is dated to 1200s . My inquiry is whether a strike by a hardwood blade would be likely to shave bone. The rear maxilla is about 90degrees to frontal bone . So a sword-cut to the cranium through orbit must be nearly flat to rear maxilla. The anterior mandible is shaved so the blade must be flat with the rear jaw . A 10mm thick wooden blade then must have its sharp edge about 5mm outside the alveolar and so an iron sword therefore must have done it. Australian Aboriginal people didn’t have iron in 1200s.
". On this basis, the boomerang is the most probable candidate for the main trauma. , Of the weapons tested, the frontal wound observed in Kaakutja most closely resembles that produced by an African ‘Samburu’ sword. "
Fig 6 shows the maxilla with a slice-cut along alveolar bone . The death of Kaakutja: A case of peri-mortem weapon … - ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/…/308…case_of_peri-m…
… : A case of peri-mortem weapon trauma in an Aboriginal man from … On this basis, the boomerang is the most probable candidate for the main trauma. , Of the weapons tested, the frontal wound observed in Kaakutja most closely resembles that produced by an African ‘Samburu’ sword.
Cambridge “Antiquity” Volume 90, Issue 353 October 2016, pp. 1318-1333 , and supplement .
https://www.researchgate.net/publica…ales_Australia
Catalyst: Toorale Man murder mystery - ABC TV Science
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4211835.htm
Apr 7, 2015 - …wounds on Toorale Man appear similar to those on gladiators in Imperial Rome.
" I have received the following comment from the writer: " The aim of the experiments were to determine whether traditional Aboriginal weapons could have caused trauma similar to that of the Toorale skull. Unfortunately our methods did not produce trauma,… "
