Clinical Study of 123 Facial Bone Fractures in Elderly.

Choi, Chan; Kim, Yong Ha

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2007;34(4):454-459.
Published online July 1, 2007.

Clinical Study of 123 Facial Bone Fractures in Elderly.

Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea. yhkim@med.yu.ac.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE
Aging society was realized after persons over 65 was rated above 7% in 2000. It is inevitable fact that society gets older. Few study about facial bone fracture in elderly was reported until now. This study provides a retrospective statistical analysis of facial bone fracture and reports of some demographical information from medical records. METHODS: From January 2000 to December 2005, 123 cases of facial bone fracture in above 55 year-old persons were reviewed and analysed. Statistic data was related to distribution, age, sex, causes, occupations, occurrence, time, incidence of facial bone fracture, treatment and it's complications.
RESULTS
Facial bone fractures in elderly tend to increase and rated to 4.7%. Facial bone fractures in elderly were most frequently occurred in farmers, cultivator accidents and zygoma fractures. A few minor complications were checked, but easily improved.
CONCLUSION
Facial bone fractures in elderly have small proportion of the whole facial bone fractures, but gradually have been increased. This study was observed trends in changes of facial bone fracture in elderly for 5 years and expected to provide statistical index to prevent facial bone fracture in elderly.

Keywords: Facial bone fracture; Elderly