EC Dental Science

Problem of different defects after oncosurgical treatments in maxillofacial region was interesting theme in past decades. In Serbia and Montenegro after NATO bombing in 1999.with depleted uranium and plutonium penetrators, we had increase of incidence of malignant tumors of head and neck region. Also, tumors were more aggressive and infiltrative than before, and therefore surgery had to be more radical. That was the main reason why we had massive defects who asked for one different and innovative approach to the surgical reconstruction.

Study included 767 patients in the period from 2001-2017 with different malignant tumors of head and neck region, who were treated by radical surgery and had massive tissue defects after surgery. Some reconstructive methods were innovative and some were modifications of well known reconstructive methods. Since all of them 767 can not be presented, we decided to present most interested cases and innovative approaches to the surgical and microsurgical approach in reconstruction of postoncosurgery defects.