Head and neck surgery is a specialized branch of medicine focused on treating conditions such as cancers, trauma, and severe tissue loss in the head and neck region. Procedures often involve complex microsurgical techniques to reconstruct damaged areas, such as the jaw, esophagus, or facial tissues, using bone, skin, and blood vessels from other parts of the body.
- Head and neck surgery is a specialized branch of medicine focused on treating conditions such as cancers, trauma, and severe tissue loss in the head and neck region.
- Procedures often involve complex microsurgical techniques to reconstruct damaged areas, such as the jaw, esophagus, or facial tissues, using bone, skin, and blood vessels from other parts of the body.
- This specialty addresses a wide range of tissues and organs, including the scalp, facial skin, oral cavity, thyroid glands, and salivary glands, but does not treat spinal or vascular problems in the neck.
- Microsurgery can be used to restore function and appearance in cases of facial paralysis or conditions like Romberg disease, where soft tissues of the face erode.
- Patients should consult a specialist to determine the specific surgical procedures required and to receive an accurate assessment and cost estimate for their individual case.
What is Head and Neck Surgery?
Head and neck surgery is the branch of medicine that deals with all the treatments and methods planned by specialist plastic surgeons for conditions such as cancer, workplace accidents, and gunshot wounds in the head and neck region.
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Reconstruction using Microsurgical Techniques
- Example:Jaw Tumor Many organs in the head and neck region can be repaired or reconstructed using microsurgical techniques. For example, a tumor may necessitate the surgical removal of all or part of the lower jaw. This procedure results in significant tissue loss in the jaw area, severely impairing the patient’s quality of life. This is where microsurgery comes in. With microsurgery, bone, skin, and the blood vessels supplying them are taken from the leg, groin, or back and transplanted to the area with tissue loss, thus reconstructing the jaw. To nourish these newly transplanted tissues, the blood vessels in the transplanted tissues are sutured end-to-end under a microscope to ensure blood circulation.
- Example:Gunshot Wounds Injuries from firearms that result in the loss of the nose and the upper and lower jaw can completely disrupt a person’s life. In such cases, tissue transplantation from the arm, hip, and leg to the facial area can be performed simultaneously.
- Example:Esophagus Using microsurgical techniques, the skin from the arm can also be transformed into a tube to repair the esophagus lost due to a tumor. In a patient with facial paralysis due to an accident or tumor, muscles and nerves are simultaneously transferred to restore movement to the area. In this way, function can be restored to the paralyzed area over time.
- Example:Romberg Disease In Romberg disease, which affects the facial area, the soft tissues of the face, along with all the fat and bone tissues, erode. This can be unilateral or bilateral. In these patients, skin from the back or abdomen is thinned and used as filler. Microsurgical techniques are also used in this procedure. In this way, the depressions in the patient’s face can be eliminated.
Head and Neck Surgery Frequently Asked Questions
The most frequently asked questions about aesthetic procedures before, during, and after.
What are the prices for head and neck surgical procedures and treatments?
It is quite difficult to determine the prices for head and neck surgery procedures initially. The specialist doctor needs to determine the procedures to be performed in order to inform the patient and their relatives about the prices before the surgery.
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☏ You can obtain information by calling +90 212 257 1515 or +90 541 334 3484, or by contacting patient advisors via live support with questions such as “I would like to get a price quote for head/neck surgery procedures, what are the surgery prices, how are payments made?” etc., and you can request an appointment by stating that you wish to speak with the professor doctor.
Note: It is prohibited for hospitals, aesthetic centers, and health centers approved by the Ministry of Health to disclose prices related to head and neck surgery procedures on their websites. Aesthetic clinics that do not comply with this legal procedure are subject to penalties.
What are the specialties of head and neck surgery?
Head, neck, and facial skin cancers, thyroid gland surgeries, salivary gland surgeries, trauma surgeries, skull surgeries, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, and rhinoplasty are specialties.
Which neck treatments are NOT dealt with by head and neck surgery?
Head and neck surgery does not deal with spinal problems such as herniated discs, neck stiffness, cervical lordosis, etc., or vascular problems in the neck.
Which tissues and organs are dealt with in head and neck surgery?
Head and neck surgery deals with the treatment of tissues and organs such as the scalp and facial skin, eyelids and eye sockets, nasal cavities and sinuses, base of the skull, lips, oral cavity, pharynx and esophagus, larynx and upper part of the trachea, cervical lymph nodes, thyroid and parathyroid glands, salivary glands, nerve tumors, soft tissue tumors, facial bone tumors, and odontogenic lesions, etc.
Which tumors, both benign and malignant, does head and neck surgery treat?
Head and neck surgery deals with the treatment of malignant cancers affecting the thyroid, larynx, pharynx, mouth and nose, salivary glands, facial skin, scalp, and any cases where these cancers have metastasized to the neck, as well as thyroid nodules, vascular and nerve tumors in the neck, parathyroid gland tumors, and benign tumors of the salivary glands.
