RT Journal Article SR Electronic 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 FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP i27 OP i35 DO 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043297 VO 26 IS Suppl 2 A1 Ratilal Lalloo A1 Lydia R Lucchesi A1 Catherine Bisignano A1 Chris D Castle A1 Zachary V Dingels A1 Jack T Fox A1 Erin B Hamilton A1 Zichen Liu A1 Nicholas L S Roberts A1 Dillon O Sylte A1 Fares Alahdab A1 Vahid Alipour A1 Ubai Alsharif A1 Jalal Arabloo A1 Mojtaba Bagherzadeh A1 Maciej Banach A1 Ali Bijani A1 Christopher Stephen Crowe A1 Ahmad Daryani A1 Huyen Phuc Do A1 Linh Phuong Doan A1 Florian Fischer A1 Gebreamlak Gebremedhn Gebremeskel A1 Juanita A Haagsma A1 Arvin Haj-Mirzaian A1 Arya Haj-Mirzaian A1 Samer Hamidi A1 Chi Linh Hoang A1 Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani A1 Amir Kasaeian A1 Yousef Saleh Khader A1 Rovshan Khalilov A1 Abdullah T Khoja A1 Aliasghar A Kiadaliri A1 Marek Majdan A1 Navid Manafi A1 Ali Manafi A1 Benjamin Ballard Massenburg A1 Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani A1 Shane Douglas Morrison A1 Trang Huyen Nguyen A1 Son Hoang Nguyen A1 Cuong Tat Nguyen A1 Tinuke O Olagunju A1 Nikita Otstavnov A1 Suzanne Polinder A1 Navid Rabiee A1 Mohammad Rabiee A1 Kiana Ramezanzadeh A1 Kavitha Ranganathan A1 Aziz Rezapour A1 Saeed Safari A1 Abdallah M Samy A1 Lidia Sanchez Riera A1 Masood Ali Shaikh A1 Bach Xuan Tran A1 Parviz Vahedi A1 Amir Vahedian-Azimi A1 Zhi-Jiang Zhang A1 David M Pigott A1 Simon I Hay A1 Ali H Mokdad A1 Spencer L James YR 2020 UL http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_2/i27.abstract AB 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.