This report is a clinical observation based on 401 patients who visited on Department of Oral Radiology, Osaka Dental University from April 1970 to March 1975, because of mandibular fracture.
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the site of occurrence of mandibular frature and the pattern of fracture mode.
The results are summarized asfollows:
1) The number of annual patients in 1975 increased as one and a half times many as that in 1970.
2) Fractures in male were found as four times as those in female.
3) More than half of the patients were 10 to 30 years of age.
4) The fractures were caused by traffic accident, accident in working and violent fall.
5) The total number of fracture lines in 401 patients with mandibular fracture were 670 lines, and 1.67 fracture lines per person were observed.
6) Condylar process, cuspid-premolar and anterior regions were most frequently affected, mandibular angle and molar region were following site, ascending ramus and coronoid region were less affected.
7) When first fracture line in anterior or cuspid-premolar region was found, the second or the third fracture lines were often found in the condylar process.
8) The simple bone fracture line were often found in molar region or madibular angle.
9) More than half of condylar fracture were combined with fractrue of the anteior region or fractures of contralateral condylar process.
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