ArticleCraniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction2021
The Implementation of COVID-19 Social Distancing Measures Changed the Frequency and the Characteristics of Facial Injury: The Newcastle (Australia) Experience.
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- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of the fractures and etiology of orofacial trauma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2025Pooled it
- What was the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on unintentional injuries, in Canada and globally? A scoping review investigating how lockdown measures impacted the global burden of unintentional injury.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Epidemiologic Changes of Facial Bone Fracture before and after Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Level 1 Trauma Center in Korea.Archives of plastic surgery · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic disparities in rates of facial fracture surgeries for women and men at a regional tertiary care centre in Australia.ANZ journal of surgery · 2022Article
- Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on maxillofacial trauma: A retrospective study in southern Spain.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2022Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on the injury pattern for maxillofacial fracture in Daegu city, South Korea.Maxillofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
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designA retrospective study was undertaken of a cohort of facially injured patients using matched 8-week periods: non-COVID (2019) and COVID (2020).
objectiveTo determine whether there were any changes to the frequency and characteristics of facial injury due to the imposition of COVID-19 social distancing measures.
methodsThe primary predictor variable was an 8-week period of COVID-19 social distancing. The primary outcome variable was the sustaining of a facial injury. Demographic (age/gender) and injury characteristics (mechanism, site, and treatment) were also studied. Descriptive statistical analysis was undertaken and comparison made using Pearson χ
resultsThe number of facial injuries decreased from 103 (2019) to 73 (2020). There were statistically significant differences in changes over time for the 8-week periods. There were some clinically apparent differences seen in the characteristics of facial injuries.
conclusionsThe imposition of COVID-19 social distancing changed the frequency and characteristics of facial injury.
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