This study was based on a series of 369 patients with Oral and Maxillofacial injuries treated at Kumi Hospital, College of Medicine, Soon-Chun-Hyang University from Jan. 1992 to Dec. 1994
@ES The results obtained were as follows :
@EN 1. The number of male patient was 310 and that of female was 59, leading to 5.3 : 1 of male-female ratio, and the 3rd decade was highest age group in incidence.
2. Weekly incidence was the highest in Sun. & Sat, and monthly incidence was the highest in Nov. & Oct.
3. Causes as follows : traffic accident 41.9%, slip& fall down 25.4%, human trouble 16.5%, industrial accident 7.5%, sports 6.7%, etc.
4. Site distribution as follows : mandible fracture 32.3%, maxilla fracture 4.8%, zygoma fracture 21.4%, nasal bone fracture 34.1%, orbital & ethmoidal fracture 4.6%.
5. The most common site of mandible was symphysis & angle, and the ratio of OR & CR was 1.3 : 1.
6. The most common site of maxilla was Le Fort 1, 2, and the ratio of OR was 3 : 1 .
7. The most common site of zygoma was body, the ratio of OR & CR was 3.3 : 1.
8. The mean period of intermaxillary fixation was 4.33 weeks.
9. Combined injury in facial fracture was 35.8% : The facial fractures were most frequently combined with head & neck(47.0%), upper extremities and abdomen(9.8).
10. The mean elapsed time from injury to hospital was 1.9 days, and that to operation was 5.1 days.
11. The mean number of combined teeth injury was 0.6, and percent of combined soft tissue injury of face was 51.3%.
12. Post-operative complication ocuured in 4 out of 323 cases. All of that was infection.
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