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 . etter when theface is studied from the side than from in front. The fonimeterof Camper has been employed to measure the facial angle whichvaries greatly in the different races of man and in different typesof the same race. There are certain of the soft tissues of the face which deservespecial attention by the surgeon operating in this region. Thefora
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 . etter when theface is studied from the side than from in front. The fonimeterof Camper has been employed to measure the facial angle whichvaries greatly in the different races of man and in different typesof the same race. There are certain of the soft tissues of the face which deservespecial attention by the surgeon operating in this region. Theforamina for the exit of the terminal branches of the threedivisions of the fifth, or trifacial, nerve have passing throughthem the corresponding arteries and veins. The situation ofthese vessels is important, because flaps should be cut so as tomaintain when possible the integrity of these nerves and of these nerves usually is not of grave importance becausethe lesion produces merely a paralysis of sensation, which maybe only temporary. Division of the artery may in some caseslead to sloughing of an important part of the flap. This is notof very common occurrence, because of the rich anastomosis ofvessels in the facial Fie. 6.— Hyoid or lingual bone. (From Cunningham.) The supraorbital foramen is situated at about the juncture ofthe inner third with the middle third of the supraorbital line drawn from this point downward and slightly outward,so as to cross the space between the two premolar bicuspid teethin the upper and lower jaws, passes over the infraorbital and themental foramina. The seventh, or facial, nerve, which is the motor nerve of themuscles of expression, makes its exit from the stylo-mastoidforamen, passes through the parotid gland, and breaks up into SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE FACE. II branches which radiate toward the temple, the eye, the cheekand the lower jaw. Its existence in this region should not beforgotten, because incisions ma
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