FRACTURES MAXILLO – FACIALES DUES AUX ACCIDENTS DE LA CIRCULATION ROUTIERE : ASPECTS EPIDEMIOLOGIQUES ET CLINIQUES DANS TROIS HOPITAUX DE LA VILLE DE YAOUNDE

Road crashes are the cause of 34.42% to 90.15% of all facial tissue damage sometimes 90% of deaths worldwide from RCCs occur in low and middle income countries. The aim of our study was to describe the epidemiological profile, clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic aspects of maxillofacial fractures due to road traffic accidents encountered at CHUY, HGY and HCY. This is a two-phase, cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in the Odontostomatology and ENT departments of CHUY, HGY and HCY between January 2007 and December 2016 for the retrospective phase and between January 2017 and May 2017 for the prospective phase. The total population was 363 patients. Motorcycles (68%) were the most involved A head trauma was associated in 4 cases or 30.8%. Cranio-facial computed tomography was performed for 210 patients, or 55.9% of cases,