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We sought to determine whether patients with a history of psychiatric hospitalization are overrepresented among surgically managed facial abscess cases relative to what published general-population rates would predict. Methods: Patients were identified at a single tertiary safety-net center between 22 February 2014 and 1 April 2024 using ICD-10 codes for facial abscess together with Epic SlicerDicer psychiatric diagnosis concepts\/groups, and cases were confirmed by individual chart review. Observed cases were defined as patients with documented psychiatric hospitalization and documented surgical management of a facial abscess. A denominator of unique psychiatric inpatients over the same interval was obtained through a separate query. Because that query returned an aggregate count without denominator-level follow-up dates, expected cases were estimated by applying published general-population inpatient facial-abscess rates (base case 2.5 per 100,000 person-years; range 2.0\u20134.0) to approximate person-time, and a crude observed-to-expected ratio with exact Poisson 95% confidence intervals (CIs) was calculated. Temporal ordering of abscess and psychiatric admission was examined where sufficient timing data were available. Results: Eighty patients met the case definition, against 3.37 expected under the base-case rate, giving a crude observed-to-expected ratio of 23.8 (95% CI 18.9\u201329.6). The ratio ranged from 14.9 to 29.7 across the reference-rate range. Among the 67 cases with sufficient timing data, 30 (45%) preceded the first psychiatric admission, 1 (1%) occurred during a psychiatric hospitalization, and 36 (54%) followed discharge, so the finding is presented as an association rather than an incidence. The abscess was odontogenic in 45 cases (56%), non-odontogenic in 19 (24%), and unspecified in 16 (20%). Substance use disorders (32.5%) and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (32.5%) were most frequently represented, with a mean of 2.8 psychiatric admissions per patient. Conclusions: In this single-center safety-net dataset, patients with a documented history of psychiatric hospitalization were substantially overrepresented among surgically managed facial abscess cases relative to published population rates. Because the analysis is a crude observed-to-expected comparison without dynamic denominator-level person-time or demographic standardization, and because a substantial minority of abscesses preceded the psychiatric admission, the ratio reflects the combined burden of psychiatric hospitalization and its associated exposures rather than an independent causal effect. 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