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This study aims to assess the contribution of plastic surgeons in major trauma care by evaluating the characteristics of trauma patients underwent plastic surgery at a Level I trauma center.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>From November 2014 to October 2020, we conducted a retrospective review of our hospital\u2019s Trauma Registry System for patients with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) of 9 or higher. Of all of 7174 patients, the plastic surgery (PS) department treated 870 patients; the 6304 patients not treated by the PS were classified as the Non-PS. Then, we performed propensity score matching to reduce the statistical bias, after the death in the emergency room and the missing value were considered exclusion criteria.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Result<\/jats:title><jats:p>The mean ISS showed no significant difference between two groups (16.29 \u00b1 7.04 in the PS vs. 16.68 \u00b1 9.16 in the Non-PS,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>= 0.3221). According to investigate the Abbreviated Injury Scale, both head and neck (65.0%) and face (46.4%) categories showed significantly higher in the PS group than the Non-PS group (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt; 0.0001), and its contribution ratio was 2.151 and 21.822 times, respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec004\"><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study revealed the specialty of plastic surgery was face area in trauma care. 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