Drinking and Biting in Adult Humans

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<> 86 percent of human-bite cases involve alcohol, and that men are bitten 12 times more often than women. Most bites occur on the face -- particularly the ears, nose and cheek -- as well as the fingers and forearm. Sixty-five percent of all bites involve the ear.

Drinking and BitingJune 21, 2007

Research Summary
It's a problem Mike Tyson knows well: fights that escalate into men biting other men. And researchers say that most human-bite cases involve males who have been drinking, the CanWest News Service reported June 20.

Irish researchers say that 86 percent of human-bite cases involve alcohol, and that men are bitten 12 times more often than women. Most bites occur on the face -- particularly the ears, nose and cheek -- as well as the fingers and forearm. Sixty-five percent of all bites involve the ear.

"I think a lot of people wouldn't know this happens, or to the extent that it happens," said study co-author Patricia Eadie, a plastic surgeon at St. James's Hospital in Dublin. "There's a lot of person-on-person violence that can be due to alcohol and drugs." Many such incidents go unreported because victims don't seek medical attention, she added.
The study was published in the July 2007 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal.-->