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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
On-line version ISSN 1561-3046
Abstract
BLANCO MOREDO, Elizabeth et al. Characterization of patients with facial deformities. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2021, vol.50, n.2 Epub Aug 01, 2021. ISSN 1561-3046.
Introduction:
Facial deformities are expressed as perceptible metric alterations in facial proportion or symmetry, at odds with historically specific canons of beauty and social acceptance, with repercussions on the psychology of the patient and his or her environment.
Objectives:
To characterize patients with facial deformities according to sex, age, etiology and location, as well as to determine the relationship between them.
Method:
The variables studied were collected during the physical examination of the patients (46) with their consent, and were entered into an SPSS Statistics 22 database where statistical processing was carried out with frequency measures. To compare the Fisher's exact test was used.
Results:
Male sex predominated (54,3%), traumatic etiology with the age group of 40-49 years (19,6%), 26,1% of the patients presented deformities of more than one region and no statistically significant relationships were obtained in any of the explored relationships.
Conclusions:
Among the patients studied prevailed male sex, age between 40 and 49 years old, traumatic etiology and located in one anatomical region.
Keywords : facial deformities; facial defect; sequelae.