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Human bites are usually caused by one person biting another, although they may result from a situation in which one person comes into contact with another person's teeth. In a fight, for example, one person's knuckles may come into contact with another person's teeth, and if the impact breaks the skin, the injury would be considered a bite.
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Human bite infections are potentially serious injuries that develop when a person ' s teeth break the skin of the hand or other body part and introduce saliva containing disease organisms below the skin surface. There are three common types of injuries caused by human bites : Closed-fist injuries: These are injuries to the hand sustained in a fight when the skin over the knuckles is broken and penetrated by the teeth in the opponent ' s mouth.
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Human bite infections are potentially serious infections caused by rapid growth of bacteria in broken skin. Bites- animal and human- are responsible for about 1% of visits to emergency rooms.
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