Deformity of Craniofacial Skeleton by Traumatic Injuries

Road traffic crashes on highways with high speed cars can end with termination of life. Immediately after the accident, the medical management includes early transportation by ambulance with highly equipped machines, skilled nurses and doctors to check blood pressure, blood loss, and breathing, administration of intravenous fluid plasma and collecting blood samples for blood grouping. Other treatment can be undertaken by ambulance staff such as temporary splinting (SPICA) of fractured legs and neck support. A helicopter may be used for urgent transport of injured patients with multiple injuries to highly equipped intensive care units in general hospitals. The cooperation of different specialties is required, such as neurosurgeons, craniomaxillofacial surgeons, chest surgeons, general surgeons, and orthopedic surgeons. The order of priority is head injuries, chest injuries, and abdominal injuries. Neglecting early treatment opportunities or delaying treatment results in severe deformities of the facial skeleton and damage to growth of the face in children, leading to severe deformity of the face. Isolated injuries to the eye orbit, nose, jaws, and temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) may end in ankylosis of the joint in children. A series of clinical cases will be shown

Surgical Reconstruction of the Temporomandibular Joint

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), including its embryonic development, anatomy, and physiology. It also discusses techniques for management and reconstruction in TMJ disorders, such as TMJ ankylosis (in children and adults), first arch syndromes, and chronic and acute TMJ dislocation and subluxation

Bone Grafting - Recent Advances with Special References to Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

This valuable book presents clinical experiences and research of bone grafting. Bone grafting is an essential technique practiced by craniofacial, maxillofacial, orthopedic, neuro, reconstructive and oral surgeons. Bone grafting can be used for reconstruction and restoring missing bone in trauma and tumor surgery of the facial bone or in road traffic accidents with multiple injuries and in post-traumatic missile war injuries to the face or limbs. Bone grafts, in the form of Kummoona Chondro-Ossous graft or Costo-Chondral graft, are used for reconstruction of damage TMJ for restoration of growth, function, and repair. Bone grafting is a surgical procedure where the iliac crest or rib or tibia is used to perform grafting. In this book, we examine the experimental studies on rabbits to understand the cellular changes associated with bone grafting. From this, we noticed that mesenchymal stem cells and growth factor are released from platelets and these play an important role in healing the bone graft. We recommend this valuable book to all cranio-maxillofacial, orthopedic, plastic, reconstructive, neuro and oral surgeons and to all postgraduate students studying bone grafting

Kummoona Chondro-Ossous Graft for Reconstruction of the Temporomandibular Joint in Children

There are a lot of controversy about the usage of graft for reconstruction of the TMJ, many researchers tried in the past different technique to be applied in the TMJ [1], for restoration of growth and all failed and some of these techniques may be used for one trial without success