To the surgeon’s day

A person’s face is his business card in society. But almost every one of us has had at least some kind of facial injury, or knows someone who has.

One of the most common serious facial injuries is a fracture of the bones of the facial skeleton. The fracture can be of the lower or upper jaw; palate; cheek bone, or arch; orbits alone or in combination with these bones. Injuries to the bones of the face can impair the ability to speak, swallow, chew, impair vision and the ability to breathe. There are also congenital defects that not only interfere with certain physiological functions, but also make a person’s social life terrible. Such congenital and acquired defects and deformations of the maxillofacial area are studied and solved by specialists of the department of maxillo-facial dentistry.