Surgical timing for mandibular fracture:a preliminary study
SUN Hong-yi
DAI Yan-ping
GONG Yu-hua
Abstract：Objective To explore the correlation of the surgical timing for mandibular fracture with the rate of postopera-tive complications. Methods We conducted a retrospective study on 61 mandibular fracture patients from 2007 to 2012. All patients were classified by different surgical timing after injury. Three major complications,including infec-tion,malunion and nonunion,were selected and then logistic regression and analysis of variance were performed. Results Five in all 61 patients were with postoperative complications,including infection and malunion,while no patient was with nonunion. Logistical regression revealed the odds of delayed surgery on all complications were 0.61(P=0.12),on infection 0.82(P=0.39),on malunion 0.61(P=0.12). F-test demonstrated no significant difference of time to fixation in each two complications. Conclusion There is no association between surgical timing and postoperative complica-tions,while a loose trend toward lower rate of complications with delayed surgery does exist.
Keywords：mandibular fracturesurgical timingpostoperative complications
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 679-681 )