Excerpt from The Surgery of Oral Diseases and Malformations: Their Diagnosis and Treatment
The most important changes in this, the third edition, of this work are to be found in the chapter relating to war surgery.
Hitherto undreamed-of mutilations of jaws and faces by high explosives in this war have necessitated many radical changes in the methods of immediate treatment of these war injuries.
In natural sequence has also come the elaboration and the execution of many wonderful surgical plastic operations and prosthetic devices for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of these honorably deformed and battle-scarred individuals.
Oral and plastic surgery as recognized by the Surgeon-General of the United States Army promises great achievement for the alleviation of these distressing conditions, and it is evident that the association of surgeons and dentists thus created for the prosecution of this work must require an extensive knowledge on the part of each of the possibilities for good accomplishment of the methods of the other in order that through complete cooperation the best results may be secured.
To meet this situation the author has endeavored to gather together representative ideas and methods as published from the work of the hospitals of practically all the principal nations now doing battle.
Large numbers of illustrations have been added to show desirable selections from an almost unlimited variety of splints that have been constructed along the lines of well-known fixation devices for securing fractured jaws, such as were illustrated and described in the previous editions, but in many cases so improved as to be capable of much wider usefulness than the earlier models.
With each succeeding edition the author feels more deeply a sense of appreciation of the value of the assistance rendered by those whose names have been mentioned in the prefaces for the first and second editions, all of whom he again thanks most sincerely.
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