[Use of ceramic endoprostheses in reconstructive surgery of the lower jaw in children]. / Ispol'zovanie keramicheskikh éndoprotezov v rekonstruktivnoi khirurgii nizhneicheliusti u detei.

The work analyses the possibility to use individually prepared ceramic endoprostheses in 6 children with a congenital or acquired pathology of the mandible. The operative methods with the application of ceramic endoprostheses are described which are characterized by less traumatic action and higher accuracy of correcting the defect or deformity of the mandible as compared with using biological plastic materials. This method of treatment can be recommended at the intermediate stages of the restorative reconstruction treatment of the mandible pathology in children.

[The reconstruction of the conchae auriculae in congenital and acquired defects in children]. / Vosstanovlenie ushnykh rakovin pri vrozhdennykh i priobretennykh iz''ianakh u detei.

The article is concerned with the method of reconstruction of auricles in 53 patients aged from 6 to 15 years. Before 1994 the reconstructing operations were performed by the N. I. Iarchuk method (19 patients) while during the recent 5 years the E. Joganic method has been used (34 patients). Using the total autocostal cartilage for the formation of the external ear basis is thought by the authors to be the preferable method as compared with the transplantation of the allogenic tissues.

[The classification of congenital clefts and defects of the palate after uranoplasty. The clinico-embryo-pathogenetic principles]. / Klassifikatsiia vrozhdennykh rasshchelin i iz''ianov neba posle uranoplastiki. Kliniko-émbriopatogeneticheskie printsipy.

The authors suggest classifying palatal clefts as an individual nosological entity resultant from impaired differentiation, growth, and fusion of primary embryonal structures forming the palate as an anatomical structure. Definition of the palatal interface on the basis of the embryo-pathogenetic principle underlies the working classification of palatal defects developing after uranoplasty.

[Method of closing the anterior and middle portions of the hard palate in uranoplasty]. / Sposob zakrytiia perednego i srednego otdelov tverdovo neba pri uranoplastike.

A new method of closing the anterior and middle portions in surgical treatment of cleft palate is proposed. The method allows obtaining the necessary reserve of plasty material, optimal adaptation of the wound surface margins and gives complete closing of the palate defects. The method proposed was used in operations on 6 patients with different forms of the cleft palate. Good results were obtained.