Vilray P. Blair, His Surgical Descendants, and Their Roles in Plastic Surgical Development

Ej, Stelnicki; Vl, Young; Francel, Thomas J.; Randall, Peter

doi:10.1097/00006534-199906000-00030

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“…Many OMS are familiar with the Gillies approach to the zygomatic arch that was named after the same surgeon as he first described the inconspicuous extraoral incision to access the fractured bony arch. In the United States, the wartime effort in treating head and neck injuries was led by Vilrary P. Blair who later included Robert H. Ivy, DDS, MD, under his mentorship as his personal surgical assistant (6). Robert Ivy, an OMS surgeon, gained tremendous clinical expertise in traumatic reconstruction, and one of his many contributions was the Ivy loop for intermaxillary fixation still used today.…”

Section: Oms As a Recognized Specialtymentioning

confidence: 99%

History of innovations in oral and maxillofacial surgery

Lee¹,

Chuang²

2022

Front Oral Maxillofac Med

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Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a specialty that was born out of the individual efforts of surgeons trained in both medicine and dentistry. The specialty derived much of its early identity from its necessary role in management of head and neck trauma during World War I. Outpatient oral surgery was the mainstay of practice in the early to mid 20 th century. Office-based practice still composes the largest share of the workforce, however the landscape of community practice has transformed over the last decades with the advent of dental implants. Enthusiasm for maxillofacial repositioning osteotomies was introduced later and gave a new identity to the specialty. The management of oral cancerous lesions and head and neck pathology is a more recent phenomenon. Parallel improvements in technology have made elaborate reconstructions possible, and our surgeons are now leading the way in comprehensive functional maxillofacial restoration.The future of OMS remains bright as much of the guesswork used in prior iterations is now replaced with precision surgery in both major and minor surgical cases.

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Section: Oms As a Recognized Specialtymentioning

confidence: 99%

History of innovations in oral and maxillofacial surgery

Lee¹,

Chuang²

2022

Front Oral Maxillofac Med

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“…He was the founder of rotation lobe on the face and neck used for large defects. In 1920, Kirschner described temporal lobe of superficial temporal artery and Blair used thicker grafts for reconstruction of skin defects in 1921 [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

Development of plastic surgery

Pećanac

2015

Med pregl

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Plastic surgery is a medical specialty dealing with corrections of defects, improvements in appearance and restoration of lost function. Ancient times. The first recorded account of reconstructive plastic surgery was found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts, which described reconstructive surgeries of the nose and ears. In ancient Greece and Rome, many medicine men performed simple plastic cosmetic surgeries to repair damaged parts of the body caused by war mutilation, punishment or humiliation. In the Middle Ages, the development of all medical braches, including plastic surgery was hindered. New age. The interest in surgical reconstruction of mutilated body parts was renewed in the XVIII century by a great number of enthusiastic and charismatic surgeons, who mastered surgical disciplines and became true artists that created new forms. Modern era. In the XX century, plastic surgery developed as a modern branch in medicine including many types of reconstructive surgery, hand, head and neck surgery, microsurgery and replantation, treatment of burns and their sequelae, and esthetic surgery. Contemporary and future plastic surgery will continue to evolve and improve with regenerative medicine and tissue engineering resulting in a lot of benefits to be gained by patients in reconstruction after body trauma, oncology amputation, and for congenital disfigurement and dysfunction.

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“…He died in 1955, and for his many accomplishments in the field of plastic surgery and his incessant determination to improve the specialty, he is recognized as the father of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and American plastic surgery. [11][12][13] Robert Henry Ivy…”

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A Tribute to the Founding Figures of the American Board of Plastic Surgery

Singh

Noone

Afolabi

et al. 2015

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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The American Board of Plastic Surgery recently celebrated its 75th anniversary as an established specialty board. This historical article provides an outline of the events that led to the formation of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and gives insight into the personalities and achievements of the key individuals whose unique talents coalesced into a common vision of making plastic surgery the diverse and well-respected specialty that it is today. This is a historical literature review outlining the circumstances leading to the formation of American Board of Plastic Surgery. The emphasis on the role of its founding fathers is reviewed and detailed in the article. The founding figures continue to inspire us through their unrelenting dedication to the field of plastic surgery. Over the past 75 years, the field of plastic surgery has been very well served by their successors, and these founding figures have fostered a surgical specialty of great repute.

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Vilray P. Blair, His Surgical Descendants, and Their Roles in Plastic Surgical Development

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

History of innovations in oral and maxillofacial surgery

History of innovations in oral and maxillofacial surgery

Development of plastic surgery

A Tribute to the Founding Figures of the American Board of Plastic Surgery

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