Document Type : Review articles
Authors
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College of dentistry, Uruk University, Consultant Maxillofacial surgery Baghdad-Iraq
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HLA research Unit-Microbiology Department, Consultant clinical immunology, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad-Iraq
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Microbiology Department, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad
Abstract
Mandible fractures represent one of the most common facial injuries and represent an important proportion of the acute work in a maxillofacial unit in the hospitals. Usage of prophylactic broad- spectrum antibiotics in the management of mandible fractures is regarded mandatory and obligatory due to its prone to cervical necrotizing fasciitis and contaminated infection with the bacterial normal flora in the mouth. It is routinely used to decrease risk of infection and decrease stay in hospital. The choice of the antibiotics, dose, duration, and resistance is differed and should be an evidence-based guideline for the prescription of these drugs.Fractures of the mandible is the most common fractures more affecting male patients during the 3rd decade of life after social violence, motorized vehicle crash, road traffic accident, athletes, and victims of assault which represent a great challenge due to possible compromise the airway passages and infection .There are many types of mandibular fracture like simple (closed or linear involved condyle, subcondylar, ramus, coronoid process, edentuluoud body, angle, body, parasymphysis, and symphysis), compound, and comminuted
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