Reconstructive surgery to treat the consequences of gunshot wounds to the face during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

Based on the literature analysis data, the article presents the achievements of Soviet maxillofacial surgeons in traumatology, restorative, and reconstructive surgery of the maxillofacial area during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Facial injuries were found in 4% of the total number of wounded service members. In contrast, injuries to the facial skeleton bones were 1.5 times more common than isolated soft tissue injuries. The successive transparent system of staged treatment of maxillofacial wounds created during the war years made it possible to return to service 85.1% of soldiers and officers wounded in the face and in the shortest possible time.

the history of military medicine, the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, plastic reconstructive surgery, facial defects