Electric Burns to the Mouth in Children

Mechanisms of Pediatric Electrical Injury

“…The mean patient age was 7.7 years (range, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Eighty-six (60%) of all injuries were related to lowvoltage exposures (<1000 V); all low-voltage-caused in¬ juries occurred inside the household. The Figure shows the patient age and sex distribution.…”

Electric Oral Burns in Danish Children with Special Reference to Prevention

“…Among a number of publications, attention should be called to Graciella Lupo's book "Le folgorazioni del labbro" (1960), a comprehensive study of 57 cases, and a report from Canada by Thomson, Juckes and Farmer (1965) on a series of 43 cases. Our principles of surgical treatment and orthodontic correction have been described recently (Dahl & Fogh-Andersen, 1980;Fogh-Andersen, S@rensen & Dahl, 1982).…”

Electrical injuries - a literature review

“…Usually, variable expanses of both lips, laterally, plus the corners of the mouth will be found coagulated or charred. Detailed descriptions of the phenomena have been given by Pitts (17) and others (4,(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)65), and also reviewed by Oglesby of NBS (66). Specific case histories can be found in those reports.…”

“…This problem was not discussed in the earlier literature and has been reviewed only recently (4,(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23).…”