Epidemiology of facial fractures: incidence, prevalence and years lived with disability estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study.
Ratilal LallooLydia R LucchesiCatherine BisignanoChris D CastleZachary V DingelsJack T FoxErin B HamiltonZichen LiuNicholas L S RobertsDillon O SylteFares AlahdabVahid AlipourUbai AlsharifJalal ArablooMojtaba BagherzadehMaciej BanachAli BijaniChristopher Stephen CroweAhmad DaryaniHuyen Phuc DoLinh Phuong DoanFlorian FischerGebreamlak Gebremedhn GebremeskelJuanita A HaagsmaArvin Haj-MirzaianArya Haj-MirzaianSamer HamidiChi Linh HoangSeyed Sina Naghibi IrvaniAmir KasaeianYousef Saleh KhaderRovshan KhalilovAbdullah T KhojaAliasghar A KiadaliriMarek MajdanNavid ManafAli ManafiBenjamin Ballard MassenburgAbdollah Mohammadian-HafshejaniShane Douglas MorrisonTrang Huyen NguyenSon Hoang NguyenCuong Tat NguyenTinuke O OlagunjuNikita OtstavnovSuzanne PolinderNavid RabieeMohammad RabieeKiana RamezanzadehKavitha RanganathanAziz RezapourSaeed SafariAbdallah M SamyLidia Sanchez RieraMasood Ali ShaikhBach Xuan TranParviz VahediAmir Vahedian-AzimiZhi-Jiang ZhangDavid M PigottSimon I HayAli H MokdadSpencer L JamesPublished in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2020)
Facial fractures are predominantly caused by falls and occur worldwide. Healthcare systems and public health agencies should investigate methods of all injury prevention. It is important for healthcare systems in every part of the world to ensure access to treatment resources.