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Citation

Silvennoinen U, Iizuka T, Lindqvist C, Oikarinen K. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 1992; 50(10): 1032-1037.

Affiliation

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1527654

Abstract

Three hundred eighty-two patients with 443 condylar fractures, accounting for 52.4% of all mandibular fractures, were given diagnoses and treated in our department between 1987 and 1989. A high proportion of the fractures (44%) were caused by interpersonal violence, followed in incidence by falls (29%) and road traffic accidents (21%). The type of condylar fracture seems to be influenced directly by its cause. Severe fractures in which the condyle was dislocated out of the glenoid fossa resulted more often from falls (22%) and road traffic accidents (26%) than from violence (8%). Fractures caused by violence showed a uniform type characterized by a subcondylar location and nondisplacement or deviation at the fracture line. A relatively large number of patients (56, 15%) were considered to have an indication for open reduction of the fracture.


Language: en

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