MENDES, Nickollas et al. Epidemiological profile of patients with facial fractures. []. , 70, 3, pp. 328-329. ISSN 0004-5276.

Facial fractures were mainly caused by traffic accidents (37.3%) and physical abuse (33%), victimizing mostly male patients (83.7%). Occurred more frequently in the age group between 21 and 30 years (38.2%). The frequency of men and women victimized between the first and third decades of life was very similar. Isolated mandibular fractures were significantly predominant (48%), followed by zygomatic (19.7%) and the nose (19.7%). The assaults were most often responsible for mandibular fractures, zygomatic, nasal, maxillary and frontal, while the panfaciais fractures and Le Fort resulted more often aci-teeth transit.

: dfracture fixation; internal; fracture fixation; mandibular Fractures; maxillary fractures..