[The complication incidence after surgical treatments of mouth, jaw and facial tumors in patients over 70].

After operative therapy of tumors of mouth, jaws and face by patients older 70 years the frequency of complications were 26%. Local and systemic disturbances had nearly similar frequencies. Preexistent diseases, therapeutic concepts and methods of anaesthesia influenced as well frequencies of complications as postoperative lethality. In the analysed group of elderly patients the lethality was unexpected low (2,4%).