TY - JOUR
T1 - FREQUENCY AND DISTRIBUTION OF MAXILLOFACIAL FRACTURES IN A PAKISTANI POPULATION
T2 - AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
AU - Kumar, Lovekesh
AU - Kumar, Chander
AU - Naz, Erum
AU - Siddiqui, Saaduddin
AU - Khan, Muhammad Sibghatullah
AU - Abrar, Syed Kashif
AU - Allana, Raheel
AU - Riaz, Ramsha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Background: Trauma is defined as a set of functional and anatomical alterations that can be caused by violent means, such as falls, burns and aggressions, both local and/or general. The objective of this research was to assess the etiology, biomechanics and demographics of patients with facial trauma. Methods: This was a comparative cross-sectional study involving patients with facial trauma. A non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the subjects from oral and maxillofacial surgery department of Dow University of Health Sciences for a 12-month period from February 2019 to January 2020. Age, gender, date, profession, cause of injury, types of fractures was recorded. The fractures were divided into the fractures of Le fort, zygomatico-maxillary, mandibular, dentoalveolar and panfacial. Results: The study consisted of 305 subjects; 244 males (80%) and 61 females (20%) with an age range from 3 to 67 years. Blunt injuries due to high velocity fractures and low velocity fractures led to 55.7% and 44.3% of the fractures respectively. Conclusion: Le Fort fractures were observed less frequently than fractures of the zygomatico-maxillary complex (ZMC). Most patients with facial injuries had lower socioeconomic status. The most commonly observed midface fracture is the ZMC.
AB - Background: Trauma is defined as a set of functional and anatomical alterations that can be caused by violent means, such as falls, burns and aggressions, both local and/or general. The objective of this research was to assess the etiology, biomechanics and demographics of patients with facial trauma. Methods: This was a comparative cross-sectional study involving patients with facial trauma. A non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the subjects from oral and maxillofacial surgery department of Dow University of Health Sciences for a 12-month period from February 2019 to January 2020. Age, gender, date, profession, cause of injury, types of fractures was recorded. The fractures were divided into the fractures of Le fort, zygomatico-maxillary, mandibular, dentoalveolar and panfacial. Results: The study consisted of 305 subjects; 244 males (80%) and 61 females (20%) with an age range from 3 to 67 years. Blunt injuries due to high velocity fractures and low velocity fractures led to 55.7% and 44.3% of the fractures respectively. Conclusion: Le Fort fractures were observed less frequently than fractures of the zygomatico-maxillary complex (ZMC). Most patients with facial injuries had lower socioeconomic status. The most commonly observed midface fracture is the ZMC.
KW - facial trauma
KW - Le fort
KW - mandibular fractures
KW - midface fractures
KW - panfacial trauma
KW - zygomatico-maxillary
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85142092366
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142092366
SN - 1939-5833
VL - 15
SP - 739
EP - 746
JO - International Journal of Clinical Dentistry
JF - International Journal of Clinical Dentistry
IS - 4
ER -