Abstract

From 1985 to 1990, 347 patients, 269 were men and 78 were women, presented to the Fukuoka University hospital Otolaryngologycal Clinic with facial bone fracture. Their age ranged from 2 to 68 years with a peak age of 1519 years. Of these, 210 cases were treated in an outpatient clinic and another 137 cases were received sergical treatment in a hospital. Sports injury and traffic accident were the most frequent cause of facial bone fracture. The most many cases of fracture region were nasal bone, but compound fractures of facial bone were not so rare in traffic accident. Three dimension CT was very useful for diagnosis and treatment of facial bone fracture. For surgical treatment of facial bone fracture, minimaturized screwed osteosynthesis plates were used.