Among 3,908 patients with fractures of the facial skeleton hospitalized in a 25-year period, 202 were children. 69% were boys and 31% girls. A child is most active at the age of fourteen. Fractures of the upper alveolar bone and the condyle were the most common. We compared the pattern of fractures in children and those in adults recorded at the same period of time.

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