War Injuries of the Face and Jaws *Summary of a paper read to the Society on Wednesday, October 9th, 1947.
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At the outbreak of the war, the War Office decided to create specialist units for the treatment and management of certain types of battle injuries. Amongst these was established a number of maxillo-facial surgical units whose primary function was to deal with injuries of the face and jaws. The personnel were trained for these units in the main specialist E.M.S. Units of a similar type in this country. The training was an excellent one, and selection was based on the knowledge that general surgery would also have to be undertaken ; in fact, rather niore than one-third of the casualties with facial injuries had other associated injuries. Facial injuries and burns, i.e. the type of cases which are sent to the maxillo-facial unit, constituted approximately'seven per cent, of the total casualties. This figure varied a little with climatic conditions, thus the incidence of burns in the North African campaign was higher than in North-west Europe. In the course of the eleven months active service some 3,000 casualties were admitted to our unit and of these, just over 1,900 needed operations. This represents a lot of work, as these cases are time-consuming, their treatment is elaborate, and often difficult.
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