TY - JOUR
T1 - World Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma (WORMAT) project
T2 - A multicenter pro-spective analysis of epidemiology and patterns of maxillofacial trauma around the world
AU - Roccia, Fabio
AU - Iocca, Oreste
AU - Sobrero, Federica
AU - Rae, Euan
AU - Laverick, Sean
AU - Carlaw, Kirsten
AU - Aquilina, Peter
AU - Bojino, Alessandro
AU - Romeo, Irene
AU - Duran-Valles, Francesc
AU - Bescos, Coro
AU - Segura, Ignasi Parelles
AU - Ramieri, Guglielmo
AU - Ganasouli, Dimitra
AU - Zanakis, Stelios N.
AU - Gorla, Luis Fernando de Oliveira
AU - Pereira-Filho, Valfrido Antonio
AU - Goetzinger, Maximilian
AU - Bottini, Gian Battista
AU - Gallafassi, Daniel
AU - Faverani, Leonardo Perez
AU - Alalawy, Haider
AU - Kamel, Mohammed
AU - Samieirad, Sa-Hand
AU - Jaisani, Mehul Raiesh
AU - Rahman, Sajjad Abdur
AU - Rahman, Tabishur
AU - Aladelusi, Timothy
AU - Hassanein, Ahmed Gaber
N1 - Copyright:
© 2022. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Background/Aim: The World Oral Maxillofacial Trauma (WORMAT) project was performed to analyze the causes and characteristics of maxillofacial fractures managed in 14 maxillofacial surgery divisions over a 1-year period.Methods: The following data were collected: age, sex, cause and mechanism of maxillofacial fracture, alcohol and/or drug abuse at the time of trauma, fracture site, Facial Injury Severity Scale score (FISS), associated injury, day of trauma, timing and type of treatment, and length of hospitalization. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software.Results: Between 30 September 2019 and 4 October 2020, 2,387 patients (1,825 males and 562 females [ratio 3.2:1], 47.6% aged 20–39 years [mean age 37.2 years, median 33.0 years]) were hospitalised. The main cause of maxillofacial fracture was road traffic accidents (RTA), which were statistically associated with male adults as like as assault, sport, and work (p<0,05). Half of the fractures involved the middle third of the face, statistically associated with fall and assault (p<0.05). Trauma in multiple locations was significantly associated with longer hospital stay (p<0.05). The mean length of hospitalization was 3.9 days (95% Confidence Interval 3.7–4.2).Conclusions: This prospective, multicenter epidemiological study confirmed that young adult males were the ones most commonly affected by maxillofacial fracture. RTAs and assaults are statistically associated with the adult population, while falls are associated with females and older population.
AB - Background/Aim: The World Oral Maxillofacial Trauma (WORMAT) project was performed to analyze the causes and characteristics of maxillofacial fractures managed in 14 maxillofacial surgery divisions over a 1-year period.Methods: The following data were collected: age, sex, cause and mechanism of maxillofacial fracture, alcohol and/or drug abuse at the time of trauma, fracture site, Facial Injury Severity Scale score (FISS), associated injury, day of trauma, timing and type of treatment, and length of hospitalization. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software.Results: Between 30 September 2019 and 4 October 2020, 2,387 patients (1,825 males and 562 females [ratio 3.2:1], 47.6% aged 20–39 years [mean age 37.2 years, median 33.0 years]) were hospitalised. The main cause of maxillofacial fracture was road traffic accidents (RTA), which were statistically associated with male adults as like as assault, sport, and work (p<0,05). Half of the fractures involved the middle third of the face, statistically associated with fall and assault (p<0.05). Trauma in multiple locations was significantly associated with longer hospital stay (p<0.05). The mean length of hospitalization was 3.9 days (95% Confidence Interval 3.7–4.2).Conclusions: This prospective, multicenter epidemiological study confirmed that young adult males were the ones most commonly affected by maxillofacial fracture. RTAs and assaults are statistically associated with the adult population, while falls are associated with females and older population.
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Prospective
KW - Multicenter
KW - Maxillofacial
KW - Fracture
U2 - 10.1016/j.jormas.2022.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jormas.2022.05.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 35545192
SN - 2468-7855
VL - 123
SP - e849-e857
JO - Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
JF - Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
IS - 6
M1 - 21
ER -