The incidence of facial bone fractures has increased with development and speed-up of the transportation system and the nature of fractures has been compound and severe. So the maxillofacial surgery is newly developed and interested as a subspecial part in the department of otolaryngology. The authors had experienced 163 cases of facial bone fractures excluded mandible fracture and analyzed it's age and sex incidence, causes, symptoms and signs, associated injuries, duration until first visit and operation after trauma, classification of fracture sites, treatments and complications. The results were as follows : 1) Sex distribution was 137 males(84.0%) and 26 females(16.0%). Age distribution was from 6 to 72 years and the most common age group was 3rd decade. 2) The incidence for month was November, September, August in orders. 3) The causes were traffic accidents, human trouble, fall down in orders. 4) Symptoms and signs were pain and tenderness, epistaxis, facial deformity in orders. 5) Associated injuries were soft tissue injuries, contusion, other fractures in orders. 6) Duration until first visit after trauma was almost 5 days(63.2%). 7) Duration until operation after trauma was almost 5 days(69.0%). 8) The sites of fractures were nasal bone, multiple facial bone, Zygomaticomaxilla in orders. 9) The fractures were treated with operation(89.0%) and conservation(11.0%). The operative methods were closed reduction, open reduction with interosseous wire fixation in orders. 10) The complications were 9.9% and facial deformity was most common.
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