title: Oral and maxillofacial trauma in Brazilian children and adolescents.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, USP - University of São Paulo, São PauloSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Livia Aguiar
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Bregagnolo
authors.forename: Janete Cinira
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Bregagnolo
authors.forename: Fernando da
authors.initials: Fd
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.forename: André Luiz
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Bérgamo
authors.forename: Liliane Nascimento de
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Santi
authors.forename: Marlívia Gonçalves de Carvalho
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008446:Maxillofacial Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*