[Secondary jaw deformities accompanying tumors and tumor-like formations in children and adolescents]. / Vtorichnye deformatsii cheliustei, soputstvuiushchie opukholiam i opukholepodobnym obrazovaniiam u detei i podrostkov.

Clinical follow-up of children aged 2 to 14 with tumors and tumor-like formations permitted diagnose secondary deformations of maxillary bones in 44. Symptomatology of these deformations had signs which distinguished intraosteally growing tumors from extraosseous ones localized in soft tissues adjacent to jaw bones. Good results were attained with the use of protective labial and buccal plates which not only shielded bone formations from tumor pressure before surgery but created a support for compressive dressing during sclerosing therapy of vascular tumors in children. Reconstructive and orthodontic measures, implantation of prostheses are necessary in the active period of growth and formation of maxillofacial and dental system after organ-destroying surgery for tumors and tumors-like formations in order to not only repair the anatomical shape but more so to optimize the conditions for normal functioning of the growing and forming maxillofacial and dental system of a child.

[Foreign bodies and blind wounds of the maxillofacial area in children]. / Inorodnye tela i slepye raneniia cheliustno-litsevoi oblasti u detei.

In 42 children aged 2 months to 16 years who had foreign bodies and blind wounds in the maxillofacial region, the authors examined the causes of damages which had caused penetration of foreign bodies into this anatomical part. Clinical examinations showed that there was a relationship between age, the nature of damage, and the variety of foreign bodies in children in contrast to adults. A working scheme was proposed, which reflects the nature of foreign bodies and blind maxillofacial wounds depending on the physiological periods of childhood.