The Burden of Dental Emergencies, Oral-Maxillofacial, and Cranio-Maxillofacial Injuries in US Military Personnel.

CONCLUSIONS: The percentage of DE and OMF casualties that can be expected in hostile environments is approximately 12%. Using the most recent data since 2000, the mean DE rate was 118.2 per 1,000 PPY and the OMF rate was 3.0 per 1,000 PPY. Future research should yield information which is representative of the evolving military environment. This information should be used to enhance military-specific dental therapies and to guide protection of the craniofacial region. More importantly, quality data are necessary (1) to enable the accurate prediction of DE, CMF, and OMF casualties to insure that troop levels are sufficient for mission success and (2) to insure that all outcome variables are available to measure policy success or failure. PMID: 30941411 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research