Die Ätiologie und Therapie von Unterkieferfrakturen in der Universitätsklinik Aachen von 1995 bis 2007 : eine retrospektive Analyse

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The purpose of this study is to represent and analyse all mandibular fractures that occurred in a 13-year period in the University Hospital Aachen which means to evaluate the epidemiological facts – e.g. cause of injury, distribution of age and gender, complications – as well as the therapy of mandibular fractures. On the one hand the results are compared to a survey from 1993 which agrees on several points with this study. In this way changes in etiology and therapy within the same clinic over a 27-year period can be demonstrated. On the other hand the importance of the socio-demographic aspect will be emphazised by comparing the results to related national and international studies. Altogether 399 patients have been implicated in this review. Data were collected regarding name, age, gender, date of birth, date of surgery, cause of injury, radiographs, site of fracture, number of fractures, pre-therapeutic diagnosis, intra-therapeutic diagnosis, treatment, addictions, concomitant inju

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