Abstract
Seventy four cases of athletic or sport injuries of the facial region were reported . During the same period of past five years, 221 cases of facial injuries were experienced and the athletic injureis comprised 33.5%. This type of inuries favored the teens and twenties in age and these occured in 86% of the total. Male and female comprise 59 and 15 cases respectively. Among the various types of sports, ball games were by far the most frequent and base-ball (13 cases), rugby (12), soccer (10), basket ball (9), and others totaled 56 cases. Second to the ball games were wresling types of sports such as Judo and Aikido, numbering 7 cases. Almost all the cases of injureis were of mild to moderate degrees of simple fractures and the often seen fractures were as follows; nasal bone (75%), orbital walls (12%), zygoma (3%), and frontal bone (3%). Heavy injuries were seen only by such sports with high speed and extensive energy of the trauma as base-ball, wresling type sports and skiing.
