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标题：Incidence of mandibular fracture among patients visiting Saveetha dental college
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作者：Ushanthika T ; Vinod krishna Krishnaswamy ; Senthil Murugan Pandurangan 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：5
页码：5037-5043
DOI：10.9756/INTJECSE/V14I5.612
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Mandible is the only mobile bone of the facial skeleton and there has been a significant increase in the number of cases in recent years. It is embryologically a membrane bone and is more commonly fractured than the other bones of the face. AIM OF THE STUDY: The aim of the present study was to find the incidence of mandibular fracture and its pattern among out-patients in Saveetha dental college. METHODOLOGY:A Retrospective analysis of all the cases with mandibular fracture among out-patients was retrieved among the overall data of patients visiting Saveetha Dental College from June 2019-March 2020. The data for 136 patients with mandibular fracture was entered in Excel Spreadsheets. And the collected data was analysed using SPSS software version 19. Chi square test was used to statistically evaluate the results. RESULTS: Within the limitations of the current study, among 136 patients it was found that age group 21-30 group was the most common age group for mandibular fracture and the most common site was the parasymphysis followed by the condyle also number of males with fractures was seen to be higher. It was found to be statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Within the limitations of the current study, it was found that the most common site for fractures is parasymphysis and coronoid. The incidence of occurrence will be helpful for the government agencies and health care professionals towards planning future programmes on prevention.
关键词：Mandibular fracture;incidence;age;outpatients;gender;innovative