Essential Tissue Healing of the Face and Neck

Section One: Salient Healing Features of Specific Tissues of the Face and Neck 1: Wound Healing of Skin, Hebda 2: Facial Bones, Yu, Dinsmore 3: Craniofacial Cartilage Wound Healing: Implications for Facial Surgeons, Friedman, Micou 4: Peripheral Nerve, Rowe, Matloub 5: Salient Healing Features of Muscles of the Face & Neck, Kalliainen 6: Salient Features of the Oral Mucosa, Wehrhan, Schultze-Mosgau, Schliephake 7: Wound Healing of the Larynx, Thibeault 8: Wound Healing in the Subglottis & Trachea, Dohar, Hebda, Sandulache 9: Cervical Esophagus, Maddalozzo, Sulman 10: Salient Healing Features of the Tympanic Membrane, Hellstrom 11: Sinonasal Mucosal Wound Healing: Implications for Contemporary Rhinologic Surgery, Shipchandler, Batra, Citardi Section Two: Clinical Problems and Issues of Healing Tissues 12: Burned Facial Skin, Gosain, Das 13: Keloids and Hypertrophic Scarring, Chim, Tang 14: Laser Resurfaced Facial Skin: Clinical Problems & Issues of Healing Tissues: Pearls and Pitfalls, Koch, Banthia 15: Irradiated Skin and its Postsurgical Management, Hom, Ho, Lee 16: Irradiated Soft Tissue Wounds, Adams 17: Nonunion of the Mandible and the Irradiated Mandible, MacLeod 18: Irradiated Temporal Bone, Hahn, Brodie 19: Cranial Suture Biology and Craniosynostosis, Longaker, Nacamuli, Wan 20: Vocal Fold Scar, Sataloff 21: Clinical Considerations of Wound Healing in the Subglottis and Trachea, Ottenson, Parekh, Dohar 22: The Facial Nerve After Injury, May, Boaheni Section Three: Therapeutic Options 23: General Approach to a Poorly Healing Problem Wound: Practical and Clinical Overview, Hom, Dresner 24: Nutrition and Wound Healing, Barbul, Katz 25: Controlling Infection, Johnson, Fraioli 26: Wound Debridement, Brem, Schultz, Ayello 27: Hyperbaric Oxygen and Wound Healing in the Head & Neck, Feldmeir 28: Blood Products in Wound Healing, Greene, Johnson, O'Grady, Toriumi 29: Growth Factors - Modulators of Wound Healing, Nanney, Greco 30: Vacuum Assisted Devices

David Hom MD, FACSProfessor & Director Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery University of Cincinnati College of MedicineCincinnati Children;s Hospital Patricia Hebda PhD Associate Professor of Otolaryngology,Cell Biology & Physiology - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Director, ENT Wound Healing Research Program Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Rangos Research Center Arun Gosain MD, FACS DeWayne Richey II Professor, Plastic Surgery Chief, Pediatric Plastic Surgery Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Craig Friedman MD, FACS Facial Plastic SurgeonVisiting Surgeon, Yale-New Haven Hospital Executive Vice President, Medical Technology and Research Biometrix, Inc