International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Clinical Paper
TraumaSports-related maxillofacial fractures: A retrospective study of 125 patients
Trauma
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Patients and methods
During the period 1996–2002, 125 patients who suffered facial fractures as a result of athletic activities were treated in our department. The factors considered for analysis were age, sex, type of sport involved, mechanism of injury, site of fractures, concomitant non-maxillofacial injuries and mode of treatment.
Results
Two thousand and eighty patients were treated with maxillofacial fractures. One hundred and twenty-five patients (6%) had fractures due to sports activities. The fractures resulted of 15 different sports (Table 1). The incidence of fracture was most common in soccer (64%), followed by basketball (13.6%), tae kwon do (4.8%) and skiing (3.2%). It is noteworthy that only 10% of the patients were professional athletes.
The group of the patients consisted of 116 men (92.8%) and 9 women (7.2%). The
Discussion
According to different studies from several countries the incidence of maxillofacial fractures sustained during sports is from 5.6 to 33%2, 3, 7, 19, 20, 21, 26. However, in our hospital 6% of the fractures were sports-related. This variation may reflect the level of participation in sports activities and the type of popular sports.
The age and sex distribution of the patients in the present study corresponded to the results of several other reports2, 9, 10, 24, 26. Most of the sports-related
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