War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . to increase its the wedge (b) has grown fast in the incision (a) made in the upperlip, the pedicle supplying it with blood is severed. The wound (a) in thelower lip is closed with sutures at the time the transfer is made. Plasticcorrection of a tight lower lip may be made in a similar way from an upperlip and the adjacent cheek. Constru
War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . to increase its the wedge (b) has grown fast in the incision (a) made in the upperlip, the pedicle supplying it with blood is severed. The wound (a) in thelower lip is closed with sutures at the time the transfer is made. Plasticcorrection of a tight lower lip may be made in a similar way from an upperlip and the adjacent cheek. Construction of the cheek, or meloplasty, may be requiredafter gunshot wounds or other traumatisms carrying away thewall of the buccal cavity. In these cases it may be necessary, ifthe mandible be partly lost, to have an appliance adjusted to theteeth to hold the remnants of the mandible in place during cica-trization. This may consist of caps cemented to the upper andlower teeth of the side opposite to that lost, having hooks uponthem. To these hooks rubber bands may be adjusted so as tohold the fragments of the mandible in proper position in relationto the middle line of the face. Many forms of splint for accom- WAR SURGERY OF THE FACE. Plate E.
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