Etiology and Incidence Facial Fractures in Children and Adults

Overview

Journal Braz J Otorhinolaryngol

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 2006 Sep 5

PMID 16951858

Citations 23

Authors

Jair Cortez Montovani

Ligia Maria Pirani de Campos

Marina Ayabe Gomes

Vinicius Rodrigues Silva de Moraes

Fabricio Dominici Ferreira

Emanuel Araujo Nogueira

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Abstract

Unlabelled: Facial trauma has presented an increasing occurrence in the last four decades, due especially to the growth of accidents with automobiles as well as to the urban violence. Both of which continue being the main cause of such traumas.

Aim: To evaluate the features of the population victim of facial trauma as to gender, age, occupation, origin, type of fracture and its cause.

Design Study: retrospective clinical with transversal cohort.

Material And Method: Retrospective study consulting hospital registers of 513 patients victims of the facial trauma.

Results: There was a higher incidence of facial trauma on men (84,9%), white (82,7) and with an average age of 29. Regarding occupation, the trauma was mostly occurred to students (16,6%) and Masons (11,2%). The jaw was the most affected place (35%), followed by zygoma (24%) and by the nose (23%), though most patients presented a single facial fracture (82,5%). Among the causes, accidents with automobiles (28,3%), aggression (21%) and accidental fall s (19,5%) were the most common.

Conclusions: Accidents with automobiles continue being the main cause of facial trauma, especially of multiple fractures due to the great transmission of kinetic energy.

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