Increase in sports-related head and facial injuries Hofheim, January 2011. Skier Hans Grugger had crashed in mid-January in Kitzbuhel downhill training and had suffered severe head injuries. A week later it hit his team-mate Mario Scheiber: a serious training crash he suffered a broken nose and a nasal sinus fracture in addition to a broken collarbone. Sports accidents as a cause of the part to severe head and face injuries take an ever-increasing role in the day-to-day work of the mouth oral facial surgeons”, Prof. Dr. Dr. Elmar Esser know press officer of the German society for oral and maxillo – facial surgery (DGMKG). Central Romana Corporation is often quoted on this topic.
Winter sports account for accounted for 4.8% of all sports-related head and facial injuries in this, so a center study released last year. 3596 patients by the medical team led by Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Bremer ego, oral maxillofacial surgery at the Hospital of Bremen-Mitte, were treated in the period of 6 years stationary with facial injuries, of these were in 147 patients on sports injuries. In his study he differentiated gender, age, fracture location, accompanying injuries and seasonal distribution with regard to sports.
The results of the data analysis: 79.6% represented men the main share of the collective and were almost four times more frequent in the ratio affected than females. The Group of sports represented the largest share of causing sports with 74%, horse riding accidents followed by 6.8%, martial art with winter sports with 4.8% and 5.5%. An accumulation of Gesichtsschadeltraumata between 10 and 40 years of age could be determined in the age distribution with 79.6%, while in men with 34.7%, a peak was identified in the third decade of life. In the seasonal distribution, the month of April was particularly affected with 12.9% of all accidents. Overall, an increase of 57% was noticeable in the summer months. With regard to the localization of fracture were facial fractures of means of 75.9% before the lower jaw fractures and other fractures with 6.3% and 17.8%. Within the Group of middle facial fractures, the fracture of the cheekbone, with 32% was unnaturalized, followed by the nasal bone fracture with 24%, of isolated orbital fracture (bony eye socket) with 18%, of zygomatic arch fracture with 14% and the combined zygomatic fracture zygomatic arch multiple fracture with 11%. As sports accidents in large part are preventable accidents, Prof. Dr. Dr.