[What is new in plastic surgery of the head and neck for the practicing otorhinolaryngologist?]. / Was gibt es Neues in der plastischen Chirurgie im Kopf-Hals-Bereich für den praktizierenden Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Arzt?

On examples the plastic facial surgery is shown as an multidisciplinary territory, whereby main points are set. Most important for the oto-rhino-laryngology is the ear and nose correction as whereas the possibility to use collagen injections, the problems of secondary Rhinoplastics, the esthetic corrections in the area of the throat and head (dermabrasio, eye lid corrections, face lifting, hair transplantation) and considerations about education and advanced training. The maxillo facial surgery puts out the dento-alveolic dysgnathies, the ophthalmology the eye lid corrections. The experimental surgery can contribute to the still open questions, whether in the future in plastic operations allogene transplantates can fill the place of autogenous material or not.

[Possibilities for the use of lasers in dental surgery]. / Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Laserstrahlen in der zahnärztlichen Chirurgie.

The use of the Nd:YAG laser in everyday oral surgery in patients with a hemorrhagic diathesis is reported. It proved successful in various hemorrhagic disorders mild forms of hemophilia A. The most essential including step forward seems to be that this may simplify the so far complicated treatment of this group of patients in a hospital, as it may enable outpatient therapy to be performed and considerably reduce the cost of treatment. In addition, the risk of hepatitis is smaller for all those patients in whom missing clotting factors have had to be substituted up to the present.