The cases reported in this paper include all patients with fractures of the facial bones, admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery of Han-Yang Uni. Hosp. during last 2 years.
During this period, A total of 26 patients with fractures of the facial bones were admitted to this hospital.
Fourteen patients(53.8% of the total) had fractures of the mandible. The other 12 patients had zygoma fractures( 7 patients), nasal bone fractures( 3 patients)and maxillar fractures(2 patients).
The incidence was 22 patients (84.6%) in male and 4 patients (15.4%) in female.
The greatest incidence of the disease occurred in the age group of 1540 years.
The most common causes were traffic accidents (69.2%).
The injuried site in mandibular fractures were follwings.
1) Bilateral fractures were 4 patients, 7 patients in left side, and 3 patients in right side.
2) Most common site was symphysis (35%), condyloid process (20%) and body (20%).
3) Multiple fractures were 42.8%.
The combined injury were 10 patients in fractures without facial bone, 8 patients in major laceration, 7 patients in cerebral contusion, one patient in subdural hematoma, and the other one is amputation of left arm.
The treatment were intermaxillary fixation, inter-osseus wire fixation with arch bars and rubber band in almost cases.
The almost patients were complete healed without any complication within 8 weeks.
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