Maxillofacial Injuries is a two-volume work covering nearly all aspects of maxillofacial injury from basic anatomy and initial treatment to delayed reconstruction using the latest techniques. These volumes will scrve as a classic basic text and future reference for all physicians and surgeons dealing with maxillofacial injury. Its scope is almost of encyclopedic proportions since a wide range of topics has been assembled under one cover. Topics are well organized into two volumes with a logical order and great detail. Basic anatomy and physiology form a basis for each chapter with the development of clinical problems and solutions using a very practical, stepwise, almost cookbook approach. The material covered is extremely practical and detailed with excellent photographs and drawings of clinical situations. There are numerous technical fine points and tricks presented throughout the text. Particularly impressive is the chapter on gunshot wounds, which ranges from ballistics to free flaps and discusses the historical management of battlefield injuries from conflicts around the globe. The chapter devoted to maxillofacial prosthetics and technology was also very enlightening.
This text has its roots in a text by Rowe and Killey entitled Fractures of the Facial Skeleton. Most of the contributors are from the United Kingdom and are oral surgeons. As a result there is definitely a British flavor, and maxillofacial surgery is well represented. However, contributions from neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons, otolaryngologists, radiologists, and orthopedists round out the text. The first volume covers anatomy, radiology, soft tissue injury, mandibular and midfacial fractures, orbital and zygomatic fractures, and maxillofacial injuries in children. Volume I1 includes gunshot wounds, ophthalmic injuries, complications and residual deformities, and maxillofacial prosthetics and technology.
The authors have tried and succeeded in providing the reader with a guide to maxillofacial injuries starting with evaluation of the injury, progressing through primary and definitive care, to the stage of recovery, and finally to reconstructive surgery and prosthetic rehabilitation. Emphasis has been placed on a multispecialty approach. The reader will be immediately impressed that these volumes are an outstanding contribution and far beyond the rehash of subject matter often found in textbooks of this type. Maxillofacial Injuries is a classic, don't miss it.