Incidence and etiological pattern of jaw fractures in Greenland

Thorn, Jennifer; Møgeltoft, M.; Hansen, Per Lyngs

doi:10.1097/00006534-198809000-00069

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“…By age, similar to other results[ 11 , 13 – 17 ], those in their 20s have the most injuries. The percentage of 20s were 43.5% in Group A, 42.1% in group B and and 28% in group C. In Group A and B the next highest percentage was 30s, but in Group C, 10s were the second most common.…”

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Maxillofacial Trauma Trends at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Study

Jeon

Jung

Lee

et al. 2014

Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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Purpose:Maxillofacial fractures are rapidly increasing from car accidents, industrial accidents, teenaged criminal activity, and sports injuries. Accurate assessment, appropriate diagnosis, and preparing individual treatment plans are necessary to reduce surgical complications. We investigated recent trends of facial bone fracture by period, cause, and type, with the objective of reducing surgical complications.Methods:To investigate time trends of maxillofacial fractures, we reviewed medical records from 2,196 patients with maxillofacial fractures in 1981∼1987 (Group A), 1995∼1999 (Group B), and 2008∼2012 (Group C). We analyzed each group, comparing the number of patients, sex ratio, age, fracture site, and etiology.Results:The number of patients in each period was 418, 516, and 1,262 in Groups A to C. Of note is the increase in the number of patients from Group A to C. The sex ratios were 5.6:1, 3.5:1, and 3.8:1 in Groups A, B, and C. The most affected age group for fracture is 20∼29 in all three groups. Traffic accidents are the most common cause in Groups A and B, while there were somewhat different causes of fracture in Group C. Sports-induced facial trauma was twice as high in Group C compared with Group A and B. Mandible fracture accounts for a large portion of facial bone fractures overall.Conclusion:We observed an increase in facial bone fracture patients at Kyungpook National University Dental Hospital over the years. Although facial injury caused by traffic accidents was still a major cause of facial bone fracture in all periods, the percentage decreased. In recent years, isolated mandible fracture increased but mandible and mid-facial complex fracture decreased, possibly because of a reduction in traffic accidents.

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“…Some authors report that higher participation of women in society influences the rates of facial fractures in women. The male to female ratio for facial fractures was as low as 2.1:1[ 10 ] in Greenland[ 11 ], Finland[ 12 ], and Austria[ 10 ], where women are heavily engaged in social activity.…”

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Maxillofacial Trauma Trends at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Study

Jeon

Jung

Lee

et al. 2014

Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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“…There is much research about the incidence, localizations, distributions of sex and age of maxillofacial fractures in the literature. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The most common reported cause is traffic accidents. [1][2][3][4]7 Besides road traffic accident and violence, direct/indirect trauma occurs and certain disease entities like cystic lesion, neoplasms, and metabolic diseases.…”

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Evaluation of maxillofacial fracture cases: A retrospective study

Hoşgör¹,

Coşkunses²,

Kan³

2019

Yeditepe J Dent

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Aim: The purpose of this study is to characterize the fractures in relation to age, gender, mechanism of injury, and anatomic location of fractures. Materials and Method: Seventy-nine patients admitted to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Kocaeli University Faculty of Dentistry between July 2013 and June 2018 with the diagnosis of the maxilla or mandible fracture and who have been treated, were included in our study. Data were collected regarding age, sex, etiology, time distribution, site of the fracture, treatment protocol and evaluated. Results: A total of 79 patients with 101 fractures were included in this study. The results were achieved from 58 (73.4%) males and 21 (26.6%) females, whose ages ranged from 7 to 65 years and the mean age was 31.36±13.07. Traffic accidents (30.4%) were the major cause of etiology of the trauma and followed by violence (27.8%) and falls (17.7%). The most common fractured anatomic sites were angulus (34.6%) and parasymphyseal regions (17.8%). Conclusion: Maxillofacial fractures result from various types of facial trauma. Traffic accident and violence are the most common etiological factors for these fractures. A deeper understanding of preventive actions to reduce falls, traffic accidents and aggression in the population can be beneficial to people in terms of quality of life.

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