Result of Free Flap Reconstruction and Dental Implant Rehabilitation in Patients with Advance Tumors of Maxillofacial Area

Background: In the recent years new techniques were developed in plastic surgery and especially in aesthetic craniofacial microsurgical reconstruction. Methods: From 2009 to 2013 free-tissue transfer technique has performed in patients with craniofacial defects at the Cancer Institute, Tehran, Iran and the Surgical Hospital of Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan Due to the localization patients were classified. Patients were followed, complications recorded and illustrative cases selected for a retrospective cohort review. Results: Selected patients' average age were 57 and 39 of them were female, 85 were male. Most of the surgical operations have performed due to the cancer defects (92.5 %) and mostly fibula was used as free-tissue transfer (in 38 cases). Success and complication rates were 96.7 % and 11.2 % respectively. Conclusion: Nowadays there are many advanced surgical techniques to manage orofacial defects better.