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Protective Effects of Helmet Type on Facial Injuries
- Source :
- The Journal of craniofacial surgery. 32(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The compulsory use of helmet by motorcyclists has lowered the incidence of facial trauma, but there are few studies evaluating the effects of different helmet types on such injuries. The authors collected retrospective data from the medical records of 287 motorcyclists presenting facial injuries treated at the maxillofacial surgery department of the "University Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro city in South Italy between 1 January 2007 and 1 August 2018. Patients were wearing 2 types of crash helmets at the time of the trauma, full face ones or open-face ones, and were compared using the Facial Injury Severity Scale (FISS). Those wearing open-face helmet were 3 times more than those wearing full-face helmet, with a higher FISS score.The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of Italy's compulsory helmet law on the change in helmet use and in particular if protection offered by helmets w4as different according to helmet type. The authors correlated the FISS scores among motorcyclists wearing these 2 tipologies of crash helmet.
- Subjects :
- Facial trauma
medicine.medical_specialty
injury
education
Poison control
Crash
maxillofacial trauma
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Injury prevention
Medicine
Craniocerebral Trauma
Humans
helmet law
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Facial Injuries
Retrospective Studies
business.industry
Medical record
technology, industry, and agriculture
Accidents, Traffic
Human factors and ergonomics
030206 dentistry
General Medicine
equipment and supplies
medicine.disease
Fracture
Otorhinolaryngology
Italy
Motorcycles
Physical therapy
Surgery
Head Protective Devices
helmet type
business
human activities
motorcyclist
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15363732
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of craniofacial surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6b721ef313e58911bf5d42e4d67d3dcb