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Surgical Approaches to the Facial Skeleton

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This color atlas of surgical approaches, planes, and technique is an excellent book for facial surgeons to add to their collection. The book is authored by two premier oral and maxillofacial surgeons which should also prove useful to persons in the field of plastic surgery interested in facial surgical technique.

I am an Army Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and just looked through my new second edition. I have used this book for several years now, through residency, and have found it to be very helpful. The new 2nd edition is much better with updated photos and illustrations, new approaches, and great explanations. I have shared this book with my ENT/Head & Neck Surgery and Plastic Surgery colleagues. I recommend this text to residents, fellows and practitioners.

I previewed this book at my school's library and was recommended to me by an OMFS resident during my externship. After flipping through the pages, the illustrations were precise and the surgical approaches and step are spelled out in detail. It was a great to see specific procedures, steps, and illustrations in this reference text after I've seen it in the OR. I've heard that Dr. Ellis is currently working on the 2nd edition of this text due out in August 2005. Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of that edition! Good luck locating a copy of the current edition, it's out-of-print and no online bookstores have this book in stock.

Ellis and Zide guarantee this 5-star book. A 14 chapters exhaustive atlas of surgical approaches to the facial skeleton. Treatment of facial fractures, paranasal sinuses diseases, recontouring procedures and electives osteotomies require a correct soft tissue exposure. In this book, all soft tissue approaches are dealt with in detail. Illustrations, fresh cadaveric sections and photos in the OP, allow a step-by-step understanding of how to achieve a correct approach to every bony structure of the facial skeleton. I strongly recommend this book to everyone that deals with the facial skeleton structures (OMFS, ENT and plastic surgeons as well).

A medium book from a great author. Many congratulations to him for his job but I waited something more from the first maxillofacial traumatologist of the world

It is an easy read text with clearly illustrated diagrams and pictures.
I would recommend it to all aspiring and practising oral & maxillofacial surgeons around the world.
To the authors, I would urge them to keep up with the good quality both in style, content and description.

Dr. Sanya Bernard Okumu,
Box 17670-0100,
Nairobi, Kenya.

This book is very good to quickly review the approaches to the facial skeleton. Book is easy to read and straight to the point.

The second edition is even better than the first one. It is a must for every ENT, Plastic and OMFS residents. Also would be helpful for surgeons in practice to review.