TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - World Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma (WORMAT) project: a multicenter pro-spective analysis of epidemiology and patterns of maxillofacial trauma around the world
JO  - Journal of stomatology, oral and maxillofacial surgery
A1  - Roccia, Fabio
A1  - Iocca, Oreste
A1  - Sobrero, Federica
A1  - Rae, Euan
A1  - Laverick, Sean
A1  - Carlaw, Kirsten
A1  - Aquilina, Peter
A1  - Bojino, Alessandro
A1  - Romeo, Irene
A1  - Duran-Valles, Francesc
A1  - Bescos, Coro
A1  - Segura, Ignasi Parelles
A1  - Ramieri, Guglielmo
A1  - Ganasouli, Dimitra
A1  - Zanakis, Stelios N.
A1  - Gorla, Luis Fernando de Oliveira
A1  - Pereira-Filho, Valfrido Antonio
A1  - Goetzinger, Maximilian
A1  - Bottini, Gian Battista
A1  - Gallafassi, Daniel
A1  - Faverani, Leonardo Perez
A1  - Alalawy, Haider
A1  - Kamel, Mohammed
A1  - Samieirad, Sa-Hand
A1  - Jaisani, Mehul Raiesh
A1  - Rahman, Sajjad Abdur
A1  - Rahman, Ta-Bishur
A1  - Aladelusi, Timothy
A1  - Hassanein, Ahmed Gaber
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND/AIM: The World Oral Maxillofacial Trauma (WORMAT) project was performed to analyse the causes and characteristics of maxillofacial fractures managed in 14 maxillofacial surgery divisions over a 1-year period. <br><br>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 hospitalisation. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software. <br><br>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). <br><br>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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2468-8509
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jormas.2022.05.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -