TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Oral and maxillofacial trauma in Brazilian children and adolescents
JO  - Brazilian dental journal
A1  - Bregagnolo, Janete Cinira
A1  - Bregagnolo, Livia Aguiar
A1  - Silveira, Fernando da
A1  - Watanabe, Marlívia Gonçalves de Carvalho
A1  - Santi, Liliane Nascimento de
A1  - Bérgamo, André Luiz
SP  - 397
EP  - 401
VL  - 24
IS  - 4
N2  - Children and adolescents are frequently victims of oral and maxillofacial trauma. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of oral and maxillofacial trauma that resulted in police records, in children and adolescents aged between 0 and 16 years during a period of 5 years. Among the 28,200 reports analyzed, 463 were included in the study. The men:women ratio observed was 1.6:1 and the most prevalent age range was between 15-16 years (44.40%). Most trauma cases resulted from physical assault (64.50%) and culminated in soft-tissue lesion (80.36%). Excoriations (28.64%) leaded as the most frequent type of lesion, and the maxillary region (22.63%) was the most common location of injury. The most common type of dental lesion was dental trauma (54.76%), and bone fractures prevailed in the nasal region (36.7%). The findings of this survey may contribute to plan and execute preventive measures as well as to guide curative measures aimed at this population group.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0103-6440
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-6440201302227
ID  - ref1
ER  -