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Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Head, Facial, Neck, and Spine Trauma

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The most common site of facial fracture is?
  1. Check bones
  2. Basal bones
  3. Zygomatic
  4. None of the above
Explanation
Answer: B - The most common isolated fracture site is the nasal bone (37.7%), followed by the mandible (30%), orbital bones (7.6%),zygoma (5.7%), maxilla (1.3%) and the frontal bone (0.3%). The largest group with complex fractures included the inferior region of the orbital floor and zygomaticomaxilla (14%).
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