The sheer pace of modern life with high speed travel as well as an increasingly violent and intolerant society have made facial trauma a form of social disease from which no one is immune. Seemingly divergent shifts in society may be responsible for recent changes in patterns of facial injuries, extent and clinical features etc. resulting in massive disfigurement of maxillofacial skeleton. Various methods of bone plating have been developed to provide stable fixation for mandibular fractures and osteotomies. Miniplate system either locking or non–locking has revolutionarised the fixation of mandible fractures. The introduction of locking plate/screw system has certain theoretical advantages over conventional plates and screws which makes them superior to conventional miniplates. This study was undertaken with an aim to compare 2 mm locking plates with 2 mm conventional miniplates in fixation of mandibular fractures on the basis of ease of technique and postoperative results.