Maxillofacial Injuries in Military Personnel

Background and Aim: Head, face, and neck injuries are an important source of combat mortality and morbidity. Depending on which one is the cause of the injury, and the traumatic fracture patterns are different between both of the civilian population and military personnel. Accordingly, the aim of this study is a review of the evaluation of various medical aspects of maxillofacial surgery in military personnel.
Methods: This study was prepared by the published researches containing the survey in the surgery of combat and military-associated maxillofacial injuries before January 2019. We investigated in online databases including ISI Web of Knowledge, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, Wiley, and Scopus. The words used to identify these papers in web-based and online investigate contained maxillofacial trauma, maxillofacial surgery, trauma, military-associated maxillofacial injuries. Headings and summaries of all articles found by the investigating method were separately appraised by two reviewers and then incorporated them relevantly.
Results: The outcomes of this study demonstrated maxillofacial hurts were increasing in trauma related to the military. In addition, the number of maxillofacial trauma has rising more within the last many years. There is a high incidence of airway hurt in maxillofacial trauma. CT scan with 3D reformatting can prompt clinical recognitions of maxillofacial trauma in military operations. The main causes of maxillofacial injury were explosive systems, gunshot sores, and aircraft events.
Conclusion: The maxillofacial fracture templates are different among both the civilian society and military personnel. Thus, the valuation of different sides of maxillofacial surgery seems in military personnel crucial.