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Peculiarities of prevalence and distribution patterns and treatment approaches of maxillofacial traumatic injuries within the conditions COVID-19 pandemic

P. Brekhlichuk, M. Goncharuk-Khomyn

Reports of Vinnytsia National Medical University, 2021

Abstract

Annotation. According to previous studies there are specific territorial, social and culturally associated patterns of prevalence and distribution of maxillofacial injuries within quarantine restrictions regarding their etiology and mechanism of occurrence in different countries, which in turn could provoke changes among individual components of generally accepted recommendations used during the treatment of patients with traumatic maxillofacial lesions under conditions of lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic. Objective – to determine the main features of the maxillofacial traumatic lesions prevalence and distribution patterns and to systematize the main changes in the protocols of specialized dental care used for the treatment of patients with traumatic lesions of the maxillofacial structures during COVID-19 pandemic. During the course of the analytical study, retrospective epidemiological data related to the prevalence of maxillofacial injuries during 2020 was processed, and comparative analysis of the obtained data with similar indicators registered during the control periods of 2018–2019 was provided. After the content analysis of available recommendations considering specifics of patients stratification, prioritization and features of certain types of surgical interventinos associated with the need for treatment maxillofacial trauma cases of varying severity, their systematization was carried out within the Microsoft Excel 2019 (Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft) in the form…

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