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How many levels of injury can a broken nose and septum achieve in a traffic accident?
Nose belongs to one of the five senses and is an important organ of human body. Nose injury has a great influence on the health of victims. In road traffic accidents, due to the impact of external hard objects on his face and the need of follow-up treatment, the victim's nose can be seriously damaged, which can constitute disability to a certain extent.

For the standards of nose injury and disability, according to the relevant provisions on disability grade in China's "Assessment of Disability Degree of Injured Persons in Road Traffic Accidents", there are:

Grade I and V disability criteria: complete external nose defect (or severe deformity); Grade II and VII disability criteria: most of the external nose is defective (or deformed); Ⅲ, Ⅷ disability criteria: nasal tip defect (or deformity), one alar; 4. A alar defect (or deformity); Five, traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea or otorrhea.

Note: General nasal bone fracture does not meet the requirements of definite disability.

Victims who do not meet the disability level can claim general personal injury compensation items, including medical expenses, lost time, nursing expenses, follow-up treatment expenses, plastic surgery expenses, hospital food subsidies, etc. Web page link

If the victim's injury meets the disability appraisal standard, then after the medical treatment, an appraisal institution with traffic accident disability appraisal qualification can be entrusted for disability appraisal. Generally, after discharge, hospitalization is no longer needed. After receiving the appraisal report with disability grade, you can claim disability compensation from the legal compensation obligor. In addition to the above general compensation items, disability compensation items can also include disability compensation, mental damages, disability AIDS and mental damages.

It is worth mentioning that traffic accidents constitute multiple injuries, food accidents leave sequelae, which affect people's mental, physiological functions and anatomical structure abnormalities, resulting in their loss of life, work and social activities to varying degrees, and can be comprehensively judged whether it constitutes disability.