Table 1. Characteristics of Patients With and Without Facial Fractures among 277,008 Pediatric Trauma Patients.

Characteristic	Facial fractures	No facial fractures	p Value
n	12,739	264,269
Age (y), mean ± SD	12.6 ± 5.5	10.2 ± 6.0	< 0.001
Male (%)	68.6	65.7	< 0.001
Caucasian (%)	62.2	59.1	< 0.001
Blunt (%)	95.0	84.8	< 0.001
Mechanism (%)			< 0.001
MVC	55.1	35.4
Fight/assault	11.8	3.5
Fall	8.6	26.1
Pedestrian	7.5	7.7
Bicycle	7.2	6.6
Weapon	2.7	3.5
Bite	1.5	1.5
MVC restrained	27.3	32.2	< 0.001
Region (%)			< 0.001
South	30.9	37.2
Midwest	27.1	29.1
West	18.9	16.5
Northeast	7.0	7.1
Not reported	16.1	10.1

MVC, motor vehicle collision.