As our society has become completely mobile and yet crowded, trauma has emerged as one out leading health problem. The authors especially have experienced a lot of facial bone fractures caused by intended injuries with stones, fists and steel
pipes. The
correction of dysfunction and deformity is a major aim in the treatment of injuries in facial bone fractures. And so surgeons should manage the patients with a through understanding for facial bone fractures.
One hundred sixty-seven cases with facial bone fractures admitted to the department of Otolaryngology of National Police Hospital from September, 1988 to August, 1994 were analyzed in age and sex distributions, causes, anatomical locations,
associated
injuries and management. (Korean J Otolaryngol 38:11, 1995)
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