Open AccessAn assessment of etiological spectrum and injury characteristics among maxillofacial trauma patients of Government dental college and Research Institute, Bangalore
Author(s) -
Yadavalli Guruprasad,
O R Hemavathy,
Girish Giraddi,
Jayaprasad N Shetty
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of natural science, biology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2229-7707
pISSN - 0976-9668
DOI - 10.4103/0976-9668.127285
Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , oral and maxillofacial surgery , incidence (geometry) , dentistry , statistical analysis , road traffic , head and neck , medical record , injury prevention , poison control , emergency medicine , surgery , statistics , physics , mathematics , transport engineering , optics , engineering
Maxillofacial injuries pose a therapeutic challenge to trauma, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons practicing in developing countries. This was a retrospective study carried out to determine the incidence, etiology, injury characteristics of maxillofacial injuries reported at our centre.