Table of Contents

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 for Difficult Wounds of the Face & Neck, Stoeckel, Molnar, Argenta, DeFranzo
31: Choice of Wound Dressings and Ointments, Brown, Zitelli
32: Adipose Tissue in Stem Cell Biology, Ogle, Katz, Tholopady

About the Author

David Hom MD, FACS Professor & Director Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati 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 Surgeon Visiting Surgeon, Yale-New Haven Hospital Executive Vice President, Medical Technology and Research, Biomerix, Inc.