On the basis of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, the Department of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery has been formed. It is headed by Prof. Andrei Vyacheslavovich Lopatin, Doctor of Medicine.

For more information on the potential of contemporary treatment of face and skull pathologies, see the site of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at www.cfsmed.ru

The group includes maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists, and stomatologists, pupils and followers of the school of Prof. Larisa Evgenievna Frolova. This group has long been specializing in problems of child-age craniomaxillofacial pathologies and especially in early combined rehabilitation of children with facial clefts and other defects of the facial and cerebral skull bones. Surgeons of our group operate children with large benign neoplasms in the head and neck region, with post-burn and post-traumatic soft-tissue deformations of the craniomaxillofacial region. Our team can perform surgical treatment of congenital clefts and residual deformations in patients of any age (up from 10 days) and at any stage. We have mastered both traditional techniques of surgical treatment in patients with congenital pathologies and unique methods for curing atypical cleft upper lips and palates, residual deformations of the upper lip and nose, defects of the bony and soft palates and pharyngopalatine insufficiency, underdevelopment of the lower and upper jaws. These methods allow successful corrections of almost any deformations while minimizing the risk of complications.

We pay special attention to children with defects of the calvarium and skull base: craniosynostoses, cerebral hernias, and children with post-traumatic defects of bones and soft tissues of the face and skull.

Our experience consists of more than 2000 operations performed on approximately 1500 patients with congenital cleft lip and palate and about 500 operations on 273 patients with defects of calvarial bones aged from 10 days to 21 year.

Thus, our clinical experience in treating such pathologies exceeds that of most domestic clinics and even some leading foreign hospitals that specialize in this problem. The staff of the craniomaxillofacial surgery group have over 150 scientific publications in both Russian and foreign journals.

Close cooperation with other departments of our hospital (Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Oncology and Chemotherapy, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Thoracic Surgery, Urology, etc.) and diagnostic services (CT, ultrasound and Doppler examinations, angiography, endoscopy, clinical genetics, and others) make it possible to perform exhaustive examination and treatment of patients with even the most complicated combined pathologies.

We will be happy to help patients with the following problems:

1. Congenital clefts of the upper lip and palate.
2. Residual deformations of the lip and nose after primary plastic operations of the upper lip.
3. Palatine defects after unsuccessful plastic operations on the palate.
4. Defects of the occlusion, position and eruption of teeth (orthodontic treatment).
5. Underdevelopment of the upper and/or lower jaw (orthognathic surgery).
6. Diseases of temporomandibular joints.
7. Developmental defects and post-traumatic deformations of the nose (saddle nose, nose hump, deviation of the nasal dorsum or nasal septum, alar defects of the nose, etc.).
8. Post-traumatic deformations of facial and cerebral cranial bones (post-traumatic enophthalmia, defects of calvarial bones; deformations of eye sockets, zygomatic bones, upper and lower jaws, etc.).
9. Diseases of salivary glands.
10. Developmental defects of the calvarium and skull base:

a) craniosynostoses (trigonocephaly, scaphocephaly, plagiocephaly, bilateral coronary synostosis, etc.)
b) cerebral hernias (primary and after earlier neurosurgical treatment)
c) frontonasal dysplasia (orbital hypertelorism, median and atypical cleft faces)
d) craniofacial dysostoses (Apert, Crouzon, Treacher-Collins, Pfeiffer, and other syndromes).

11. Benign neoplasms of the skin and soft tissues of head and neck (large nevi, keratomas, neurofibromas, lateral and median cysts of the neck, etc.).
12. Benign neoplasms of the facial and cranial bones (fibrous dysplasia, gnathic cysts, osteomas and hyperostoses of cranial and facial bones, etc.).

We are always happy to help you.

Trigonocephaly before and after the operation.

Unilateral cleft upper lip before and after the operation.

Bilateral cleft lip before and after the operation.

Orbital hypertelorism before and after the operation.

Combined deformity of the upper and lower jaws before and after the operation.

Head of the Craniomaxillofacial Surgery Group, Andrei Vyacheslavovich Lopatin, Doctor of Medicine

Surgeons: Evgenia V. Shakhmatova Elvira S. Mkrtumyan Sergei A. Yasonov

Phone: 8-902-610-16-42; 8-095-935-62-75

E-mail: avt708232@yandex.ru