JAW FRACTURES
NOVEL TREATMENT PAINLESS USE IN DAY N.Z. SURGEON’S PROCESS (Reed. Aug. 19, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 18. The Daily Telegraph says that the Government’s maxillofacial centres are using and developing a remarkable new method of treating jaw fractures, enabling the patient to move the part freely and painlessly within 24 hours of the fracture being set. The method involves the use of steel pins implanted in the jaw on each side of the fracture, the two ends of the fracture being brought into position and held by an ingenious arrangement of stainless steel bars and moveable nuts. The process inflicts no pain and obviates weeks of immobility. The treatment was evolved by Sir Harold Gillies, the New Zealand plastic surgeon, in conjunction with an American orthopaedic surgeon. Leading dentists are of the opinion that it may prove the most notable dental development of the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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