Craniofacial reconstruction refers to a group of procedures used to repair or reshape the face and skull of a living person, or to create a replica of the head and face of a dead or missing person
Craniofacial reconstruction is sometimes called orbital-craniofacial surgery
There are no mainstream alternatives to craniofacial reconstruction in the treatment of birth defects, traumatic injuries, or disfigurement resulting from cancer surgery.
Craniofacial reconstruction dates back to the late nineteenth century, when doctors in Germany and France first used it to produce more accurate images of the faces of certain famous people who had died before the invention of photography.
The first attempts at craniofacial reconstruction in children with congenital abnormalities were made in the late 1940s by Sir Harold Gillies, a British plastic surgeon who had treated disfigured World War II veterans
Children who have had a disfiguring injury often develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or anxiety.Adult patients also have high rates of depression, PTSD, or anxiety disorders following craniofacial reconstruction.
In the 1920s, British physicians pioneered the application of facial reconstruction to unsolved criminal cases and to treating World War I veterans who had been disfigured in combat.
In children.to repair abnormalities.resulting from birth defects.genetic disorders.traumatic injuries.In adults, following head or facial trauma.on cancer patients.The third major application.is in forensic medicine and anthropology.
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Imaging studies, including x-ray photographs, CT scans, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are used to analyze the patient's abnormalities or injuries before the operation in order to plan the surgery
Imaging studies, including x-ray photographs, CT scans, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are used to analyze the patient's abnormalities or injuries before the operation in order to plan the surgery
The angle formed by the basifacial and basicranial axes at the midpoint of the sphenoethmoidal suture.
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