China gets pioneering results in treatment of severe facial deformities

days ago, the international authority "British Journal of Plastic Surgery" (JPRAS) in the form of cover articles and editor-in-chief reviews, published the Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine affiliated with the Ninth People'sHospital
plastic surgeons in the treatment of severe facial malformation sydment research results, its treatment technology in severe disfigurement malformation to give full recognitionAccording to the results of the research team leader, plastic surgeon Professor Li Qingfeng, in recent years, the number of severe burns disfigured malformation patients is increasing, these patients not only face damage, but also serious damage to the eye, nose and mouth function, quality of life seriously reduced, sufferingFor patients with large areas of facial burns, the traditional treatment is "skin grafting"However, this method is used to repair the face, not only without expression of the "mask face", but also there are different degrees of eye, mouth dysfunction, and the appearance of dark "patches", unable to reproduce the patient's original appearance, so that they in reintegration and work serious obstaclesAccording to reports, Li Qingfeng research team recently made significant progress in allogeneic tissue transplantation and the construction of the face of the body tissue, replacing "skin grafting" with "prefabricated flaps"First, they put forward a feasible treatment strategy for the first time on all-face all-face allogeneic transplantationPreviously, foreign counterparts announced the implementation of the "face-changing surgery", only to repair a small piece, and the treatment of the entire face has not yet a good responseLi Qingfeng and other "prefabricated flaps" technology, according to the anatomical characteristics of the face, for the human body to customize the requirements of the restoration of tissueExperts further explain that the so-called "prefabricated flaps" is in the patient (to the head and neck as the best), a set of vascular networks and skin combination, combined with dilation technology, so that the skin grows in place, grow to the same size as the patient's face, completed the "prefabricated" face process, and then remove it with the blood vessels to move to the patient's faceIn this way, the entire skin of the newly transplanted face is close to the skin tone of the face, but also gives the expression, so that it is as "vivid" as possibleExperts pointed out that the use of "prefabricated flaps" this new technology to rebuild the face, not only can better restore the patient's face appearance, but also can express facial expressions, restore the mouth, nose and other functions, compared to traditional treatment methods, is a big leap in face repair technologyAt present, the research team has successfully cured more than 10 patients with severe face burns using this new technology, with good resultsA patient surnamed Liu, the whole face severe burns, mouth, nose around the tissue appears serious scar, eyelids turned over, since the burn has been unable to eat normally, can only rely on open mouth breathing, after a number of traditional "skin graft" surgery, still can not improveRecently, after the patient's "prefabricated flap" surgery in Shanghai nine hospitals, the function of the five officials basically returned to normal, and obtained a near-normal appearanceIn a front-page review published in the British Journal of Plastic Surgery, the author argues that the results of Li Qingfeng's research team provide a guiding direction for research in the field in the technology of severe disfigurement in the whole face, and are pioneers in the field (Huang Xin)