Reconstructive surgery in the Maxillofacial Surgery service. Cienfuegos, 2015-2019

• Main Authors: Bernaldo Canto Vidal (Author), José Daniel Gil Milá (Author), Ahmed Pérez García (Author), Emma Gil Ojeda (Author), Dianelys Molina Macías (Author), Dayami Aguilar Colina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 1727-897X
• Keywords: reconstructive surgical procedures; wounds and injuries; Medicine (General); R5-920; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Medisur, Vol 18, Iss 6, Pp 1130-1137 (2020)

<p><strong>Background</strong>: Reconstructive surgery of the different parts of the face is a challenge for the surgeons who perform it. Despite its current rise, studies of series of patients treated by these procedures are few.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to characterize the face repair surgery in patients seen in a repair surgery consulting room.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: descriptive study, of a series of cases, at the Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima Hospital, in Cienfuegos. Patients who received reconstructive surgery of different facial structures, in the period January 2015 to December 2019 (N = 21) attended in the repair surgery consultation were studied. For this series, age, sex, skin color, diagnosis, cause, type of anesthesia and surgical technique were analyzed.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: men and white skin color predominated. The auricle was the most frequently affected structure; consequently, the most commonly used techniques were the Filatov tube and Dieffenbach retroauricular, combined. Local anesthesia was used in almost all cases. The largest age group was 18-35 years (13 patients), with more than 50% of the total. Patients aged 60 and over were affected by lesions derived from carcinomas.<strong><br />Conclusion</strong>: The series presented shows that reconstructive surgery can solve different health and aesthetic situations, sometimes both in the same patient, with techniques of minimal surgical risk, a short time and favorable results.</p>