[Personal experience in the treatment of war injuries of the jaw and face at the Clinical Hospital Center in Rijeka].

In this paper we have presented 38 cases of wounded persons who had sustained war injuries in maxillo-facial and neck region. All of them were injured in Croatia during the war period of 1991 and 1992, and treated at the Maxillo-Facial Surgery Department of the Clinical Hospital of Rijeka. The wounded persons were observed and monitored from the moment of their injury through the first aid on the spot, up to the surgical treatment of the wounds, subsequent primary and secondary reconstruction, and the final medical treatment. This paper describes for wounded persons with injuries of bones and soft tissue of the face. In two thirds of the wounded persons with the primary medical treatment and reconstruction, the cure terminated, while in one third it was necessary to provide for a secondary reconstructive operation. At the end of the treatment, all the wounded persons were successfully cured, functionally and aesthetically restored, so they were able to leave the Clinic to return to their everyday life and work. Such result has been particularly gratifying because they were mostly young men.