Maxillofacial Trauma Cases Appliying To an Emergency Service: a Restrospective Study

Abstract

Introduction: The goal of this study is to introduce the demographic and clinical attributions of maxillofacial trauma cases referred to emergency room of the regional hospital and display their etiologic causes. Material and Methods: The cases were reviewed retrospectively by utilizing their emergency service records and 246 cases with MFT who referred to Emergency Service of Yuzuncu Yil University were included between January 2006-September 2009. Results: Male percentage of the patients was 83.3 % and 16.7 % of them were female and the average age was 23.61 +/- 16.75. The most frequent reasons were falling from high (27.2%) and traffic accidents (27.2 %). When the situation was evaluated according to the bones of the face, maxilla fracture was observed the most (50.4 %). When other accompanying system traumas were studied, the 15.3% of the events were followed by head and 12.1% of the events were followed by extremity traumas. Many of the cases having fracture in maxillofacial bones were followed in a conservative way. Conclusion: In order to reduce the factors affecting mortality and morbidity, emergency service doctors should be knowledgeable about which face bones are affected by regional etiologic factors and which organ and systems can accompany maxillofacial traumas.