Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2020 Jan;58(221):6-10. doi: 10.31729/jnma.4567.
Maxillofacial injury is one of the commonest causes of surgery performed by an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Socioeconomic conditions, cultural variation, age, and gender affect the etiology of the injury. The study is aimed to find the prevalence of facial injury that is operated by the oral and maxillofacial surgeons in the College of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan, a tertiary hospital.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed using the chart from the hospital registry for the patient being operated under general anesthesia from April 1, 2017, to March 2019. Simple random sampling was done using computer-generated random numbers. Ethical approval was received from the Institutional Review Committee of the hospital. The Data for the reason for surgery, age, age groups etiology, and tissue involvement were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.
Facial injury occupies 378 (71.59%) of the total operation performed by Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon in a tertiary hospital. Soft tissue 196 (52.85%) and facial bone fracture 182 (48.15%) is distributed among the facial injuries. Young adults are commonly affected, and the road traffic accident is the major cause of facial trauma.
Facial injury-related surgeries are more prevalent in the tertiary hospital of Bharatpur.
颌面损伤是口腔颌面外科医生进行手术的最常见原因之一。社会经济状况、文化差异、年龄和性别都会影响损伤的病因。本研究旨在探讨在尼泊尔巴德岗的医学科学学院和教学医院,口腔颌面外科医生进行手术的颌面损伤的患病率,该医院是一家三级医院。
采用描述性的横断面研究方法,使用医院登记册中的图表,对 2017 年 4 月 1 日至 2019 年 3 月期间在全麻下接受手术的患者进行研究。使用计算机生成的随机数进行简单随机抽样。本研究已获得医院机构审查委员会的伦理批准。使用社会科学统计软件包 20 版对手术原因、年龄、年龄组病因和组织受累等数据进行分析。
颌面损伤占三级医院口腔颌面外科医生进行的总手术量的 378 例(71.59%)。颌面损伤中软组织损伤 196 例(52.85%),面骨骨折 182 例(48.15%)。青年人群易受影响,道路交通伤是面部创伤的主要原因。
在巴德岗的三级医院,与颌面损伤相关的手术更为普遍。