Department of Dentistry, Amazonas State University, Brazil
Research Article
Correlation between Alcohol Consumption and Facial Trauma in Patients from Dr. Joăo Lúcio Pereira Machado Emergency Hospital in Manaus/AM
Author(s): Flavio Têndolo*, Rafael Reis and Tiago Novaes
Introduction: The widely use of alcoholic beverages by the Brazilian population stands for a health problem due to
the amount of traumas occurring due to alcohol abuse. According to recent research, 67% of the population uses
some type of alcoholic beverages, and the number of drunks associated with facial trauma has alarming grown in
the country. Therefore, this study was designed to obtain recent data on the amount of patients evaluated in the
trauma room of a Brazilian Emergency Hospital, to determine the involvement of alcohol abuse with facial trauma.
Methods: On our study, we evaluated all the patients who arrived in an Emergency room, and divided them into
categories, such as gender, influence of alcohol and conduct necessary after the trauma, and those all the data
were assessed.
Results: We f.. View More»
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