Clinical evaluation of nasal fractures, management and complication

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This study was performed on patients with different severity of nasal trauma selected from 106 patients who sustained midfacial trauma.

admitted to Al- Karkh general hospital and Alshaheed Adnan hospital in Baghdad from January 1999 to September 2001.Both prospective and retrospective studies were done.

from both studies we found that the incidence of nasal fracture higher than other fractures of midfacial bones.

Nasal fractures more commonly occur at age between (20-30) years and the most common etiology was road traffic accidents.

From 61 patients with nasal trauma in both studies we found that only 16 cases without associated injuries.

We used intra oral dental film for diagnosis of nasal fracture in addition to other methods of diagnosis.