The purpose of this study is to research the mandibular injuries on war-patients in Korea. Making the 116 patients with the mandibular injuries who came to the Dept.of Dentistry of Korea Veterans Hospital from January in 1979 to september in 1982 an o...
The purpose of this study is to research the mandibular injuries on war-patients in Korea. Making the 116 patients with the mandibular injuries who came to the Dept.of Dentistry of Korea Veterans Hospital from January in 1979 to september in 1982 an object of this study, using the radiographs and patient records.
Following results were obtained;
116 war-patients with the mandiblar injuries showed mandibular bony defects (70.7%) had higher frequency than mandibular fractures.
Average number of fractue lines of mandible patients were 1.9 lines, and mandibular body the highest frequency. (36.6%)
According to the type of fracture , single fracture showed the frequency fo 59.0%, and multiple and comminuted fracture showed the frequency of 41.0%. Among these, unilateral fractures(73.8%) showed the frequency as about 3 times as bilateral fractures (26.2%).
Among the cases of mandibular bony defects, partial bony defects were 53.7%. In this bony defects, mandibular angle region (31.8%) showed the highest frequency.
Among the cases of mandibular bony defects, sectional bony defects were 46.3%, and the region between the mandibular midline and the first molar showed the highest frequency, and unilateral sectional bony befects showed higher frequency as 1.7 times as bilateral sectional bony defects.