Post-Traumatic Defects And Face Deformations: Features Of Diagnostics And Treatment

Abstract

The high growth of injuries, the absence in the country of a unified approach to the treatment of victims with pathology of the bones of the face and skull leads to a sharp increase in the number of patients with post-traumatic deformities, defects, often to their disability and death. This problem has recently acquired the greatest importance in connection with the increase in the number of victims in areas of natural disasters and road traffic accidents. Severe multiple fractures of the bones of the middle zone of the facial skeleton, accompanied by craniocerebral trauma of varying degrees, bleeding and liquorrhea, are often outwardly unnoticeable, since they are hidden by pronounced edema, hemorrhages in soft tissues, and can only be determined with a targeted specialized examination. These types of examinations and the provision of specialized medical care are possible only in multidisciplinary centers. Therefore, these types of injuries are not always diagnosed in a timely manner, especially in severely injured with the presence of pronounced injuries of other localizations.

Osteogenesis Enhancement with 3D Printed Gene-Activated Sodium Alginate Scaffolds

“…The treatment of critical-sized bone defects resulting from trauma, degenerative diseases, or surgical intervention is still challenging and considered as a serious problem in orthopedics, dentistry, and plastic surgery [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. The development of bone graft substitutes to overcome the limitations of currently existing materials and approaches, such as auto- and allotransplantation, is an advanced and exciting area of extensive scientific and clinical research [ 4 , 5 ].…”