TY - JOUR T1 - Epidemiology of facial fractures: incidence, prevalence and years lived with disability estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - i27 LP - i35 DO - 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043297 VL - 26 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Ratilal Lalloo AU - Lydia R Lucchesi AU - Catherine Bisignano AU - Chris D Castle AU - Zachary V Dingels AU - Jack T Fox AU - Erin B Hamilton AU - Zichen Liu AU - Nicholas L S Roberts AU - Dillon O Sylte AU - Fares Alahdab AU - Vahid Alipour AU - Ubai Alsharif AU - Jalal Arabloo AU - Mojtaba Bagherzadeh AU - Maciej Banach AU - Ali Bijani AU - Christopher Stephen Crowe AU - Ahmad Daryani AU - Huyen Phuc Do AU - Linh Phuong Doan AU - Florian Fischer AU - Gebreamlak Gebremedhn Gebremeskel AU - Juanita A Haagsma AU - Arvin Haj-Mirzaian AU - Arya Haj-Mirzaian AU - Samer Hamidi AU - Chi Linh Hoang AU - Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani AU - Amir Kasaeian AU - Yousef Saleh Khader AU - Rovshan Khalilov AU - Abdullah T Khoja AU - Aliasghar A Kiadaliri AU - Marek Majdan AU - Navid Manafi AU - Ali Manafi AU - Benjamin Ballard Massenburg AU - Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani AU - Shane Douglas Morrison AU - Trang Huyen Nguyen AU - Son Hoang Nguyen AU - Cuong Tat Nguyen AU - Tinuke O Olagunju AU - Nikita Otstavnov AU - Suzanne Polinder AU - Navid Rabiee AU - Mohammad Rabiee AU - Kiana Ramezanzadeh AU - Kavitha Ranganathan AU - Aziz Rezapour AU - Saeed Safari AU - Abdallah M Samy AU - Lidia Sanchez Riera AU - Masood Ali Shaikh AU - Bach Xuan Tran AU - Parviz Vahedi AU - Amir Vahedian-Azimi AU - Zhi-Jiang Zhang AU - David M Pigott AU - Simon I Hay AU - Ali H Mokdad AU - Spencer L James Y1 - 2020/10/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_2/i27.abstract N2 - Background The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) has historically produced estimates of causes of injury such as falls but not the resulting types of injuries that occur. The objective of this study was to estimate the global incidence, prevalence and years lived with disability (YLDs) due to facial fractures and to estimate the leading injurious causes of facial fracture.Methods We obtained results from GBD 2017. First, the study estimated the incidence from each injury cause (eg, falls), and then the proportion of each cause that would result in facial fracture being the most disabling injury. Incidence, prevalence and YLDs of facial fractures are then calculated across causes.Results Globally, in 2017, there were 7 538 663 (95% uncertainty interval 6 116 489 to 9 493 113) new cases, 1 819 732 (1 609 419 to 2 091 618) prevalent cases, and 117 402 (73 266 to 169 689) YLDs due to facial fractures. In terms of age-standardised incidence, prevalence and YLDs, the global rates were 98 (80 to 123) per 100 000, 23 (20 to 27) per 100 000, and 2 (1 to 2) per 100 000, respectively. Facial fractures were most concentrated in Central Europe. Falls were the predominant cause in most regions.Conclusions Facial fractures are predominantly caused by falls and occur worldwide. Healthcare systems and public health agencies should investigate methods of all injury prevention. It is important for healthcare systems in every part of the world to ensure access to treatment resources.Data are available in a public, open access repository. Data are available upon reasonable request. Data may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available. ER -