Protective Effects of Helmet Type on Facial Injuries

xloma.fota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Protective Effects of Helmet Type on Facial Injuries Via Journal of Craniofacial Surgery - Published Ahead-of-Print The compulsory use of helmet by motorcyclists has lowered the incidence of facial trauma, but there are few studies evaluating the effects of different helmet types on such injuries. The authors collected retrospective data from the medical records of 287 motorcyclists presenting facial injuries treated at the max illofacial surgery department of the "University Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro city in South Italy between 1 January 2007 and 1 August 2018. Patients were wearing 2 types of crash helmets at the time of the trauma, full face ones or open-face ones, and were compared using the Facial Injury Severity Scale (FISS). Those wearing open-face helmet were 3 times more than those wearing full-face helmet, with a higher FISS score. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of Italy's compulsory helmet law on the change in helmet use and in particular if protection offered by helmets w4as different according to helmet type. The authors correlated the FISS scores among motorcyclists wearing these 2 tipologies of crash helmet. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Carmelo Lo Faro, MD, Maxillofacial Surgery Unit University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Piazza Miraglia 80138 Naples, Italy; E-mail: carmelolofaro28@gmail.com Received 29 October, 2020 Accepted 21 November, 2020 The authors report no conflicts of interest. Supplemental digital contents are available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's Web site (www.jcraniofacialsurgery.com). © 2021 by Mutaz B. Habal, MD. View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.