Open AccessClinical and Epidemiological Study on Patients with Mandibular Fractures within the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Compartment in the Sibiu County Clinical Emergency Hospital between 2013-2018
Author(s) -
Bogdan Ioan Petrașcu,
Dan Sabău
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta medica transilvanica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2285-7079
pISSN - 1453-1968
DOI - 10.2478/amtsb-2019-0021
Subject(s) - traumatology , medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , accidental , etiology , specialty , oral and maxillofacial surgery , epidemiology , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , oral surgery , dentistry , general surgery , surgery , orthopedic surgery , pathology , biology , physics , botany , acoustics , genus
Traumatology from the oral and maxillofacial area represents a very important and frequent pathology within this specialty, the mandibular fractures occupying the first place in terms of location and frequency due to the anatomical prominent position of the mandible. The first three etiological factors are represented by aggressions, accidental falls and car accidents. This article, accomplished in collaboration with the statistical service of the Sibiu County Clinical Emergency Hospital, aims at analysing the distribution by sex, origin environments, levels of studies, presentation of patients, analysis which was broken down by days of the week, frequent symptoms of these types of pathologies, for a period of 5 years, between 2013-2018.