With the increase of population, dramatic urbanization, traffic, leisure and sports, the number of maxillofacial injury has increased markedly. Subsequently the number of motor vehicle accident, sports accident and industrial accident were
increased and
the number of oral and maxillofacial trauma patients were also markedly increased.
A clinical study on 177 patients with facial bone fracture who visited Kangnam General Hospital during 4 years(1992-1995) was done by analysing sex, cause, fracture site, treatment method, complication and involvement of other body part.
@ES The results obtained were as follows :
@EN 1. The occurrence was more frequent in male than in female with the ratio of 4.2 : 1 and most frequently in twenties.
2. Violence was the most common cause of facial bone fracture.
3. Mandible was the most frequently occurred site and there were more cases of simple fracture(81.9%) than cases of compound fracture.
4. Simple fracture was most frequently occured(44.0%).
5. In mandible fracture, simple fracture was 86.1%, fracture site was average 1.5 sites, most frequently in symphysis.
6. As treatment methods, open reduction(78.5%) was used more frequently than closed reduction(21.5%).
7. Post-operative complication occurred in 29.4% of the cases.
8. Other injuries that were related to maxillofacial fracture occurred in 28.2%.
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