1989 Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 268-276
A clinico-statistical study of the maxillofacial fracture in our department for past five years.
Ninety-nine patients with maxillofacial fracture (excepted alveolar bone fracture) treated at our department from April 1982 to March 1987 were reviewed and analysed.
Their characteristic features were as follows.
(1) Most of the patients were in the teen age group (30.3%), and the ratio of the male to female were 3 to 1.
(2) The most common causes of maxillofacial fractures were traffic accidents (54.5%), falls (16.1%), and blows (9.1%).
(3) The majority of patients (85.9%) visited our department within two weeks of injury, and most (94.9%) came by reference.
(4) The most common fracture was of the mandible (74 patients), followed by fracture of the midface (17 patients) and combined mandible and midface fracture (8 patients).
(5) The most common sites of mandible fracture were symphysis (32.7%), condyle (31.4%), angle (14.7%), and body (14.1%).
(6) Open reduction was performed on 45 cases (54.9%) of mandibular fractures.
