Traumatismos faciais em pacientes idosos atendidos pela Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba - UNICAMP / Facial injuries in elderly patients related to the Piracicaba Dental School - UNICAMP

AUTOR(ES)

Rafael Grotta Grempel

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Life expectancy is increasing all over the world, and this social change brings an increasing participation of elderly patients in accidents, with social, economic and governmental consequences. The rising requirement of a deep knowledge about the physiological changes in this group of patients is standed out, as well as the peculiarities of the injuries and the consequences of them, that may modify the clinical priorities and the protocol of conventional treatment. This work was based on an observational, prospective and longitudinal study, aiming to evaluate the specific epidemiologic characteristics of the facial injuries in elderly patients, related to the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Piracicaba Dental School – UNICAMP, emphasizing its etiology and consequences, and the necessary knowledge related about the management and treatment of these patients. In this study all trauma related charts from 1999 to 2006 have been evaluated, totalizing 145 patients which were 60-year-old or older. The statistic descriptive analysis showed prevalence of females (53.8%), white individuals (80.7%), mostly non-economically active (85.5%) and with average age of 71.8 ± 8.1 years. The majority of the initial care was carried out by the Brazilian Public Health Insurance - SUS (83.4%), predominantly occurring in the first 72 hours after-trauma (70.3%). Fall was the main etiologic agent (71%), in which 66% of these victims were women. About fifth nine percent (59.3%) of the patients presented some facial fracture, totalizing 113 fractures, mainly in the zygomaticoorbital complex (47.8%), nose (24.8%) and mandible (21.2%). Only 18.6% of these had undergone some surgical procedure as treatment. Rigid internal fixation has been in all the fractures surgically treated, except for one nasal, one of the zygomatic arch and one dental-alveolar fracture. Concerning to the soft tissues injuries, hematomas (35%) followed by lacerations (33.7%) were the predominants. Some concomitant injury was appreciated in 39.3% of the patients, generally in upper (26.2%) and lower limbs (16.5%). It can be concluded from this study that facial injuries generally reach, in an important way, this group of patients, usually receiving a more conservative treatment.

ASSUNTO(S)

epidemiologia traumatology injury traumatologia trauma epidemiology face face

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