Covid-19 pandemic: the impact of Italian lockdown on maxillofacial trauma incidence in southern Tuscany
Guido Gabriele 1Antonio Nigri 2Niccolò Pini 1Biagio Carangelo 3Flavia Cascino 1Vittorio Fantozzi 1Fabrizio Funaioli 1Davide Luglietto 3Paolo Gennaro 1
1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, “Santa Maria alle Scotte”, Siena, Italy
2 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Food, Natural Resources and Engineering, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
3 Department of Neurosurgery, “Santa Maria alle Scotte” Hospital, Siena, Italy
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2022, 93(1), 100451;
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Abstract
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has seriously affected our society. Governments have difficult situations by adopting strict and severe mitigation measures in order to contain the pandemic spreading. These decisions influenced significatively people’s behavior changing their habits and routines. This study offers a statistical analysis of the incidence of the Maxillo-Facial traumas in Tuscany southern area, during the pandemic lockdown. The statistical analyzed has been obtained comparing the maxillo-facial trauma occurrence during the Italian lockdown between the 9th of March and the 18th of May 2020 in comparison with same period of the five previous years.
Keywords
- Covid-19
- Italian covid-19
- Maxillofacial surgery
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Pandemic
- Surgery management
- Trauma incidence in Italy