[Secondary jaw deformities accompanying tumors and tumor-like formations in children and adolescents].

Clinical follow-up of children aged 2 to 14 with tumors and tumor-like formations permitted diagnose secondary deformations of maxillary bones in 44. Symptomatology of these deformations had signs which distinguished intraosteally growing tumors from extraosseous ones localized in soft tissues adjacent to jaw bones. Good results were attained with the use of protective labial and buccal plates which not only shielded bone formations from tumor pressure before surgery but created a support for compressive dressing during sclerosing therapy of vascular tumors in children. Reconstructive and orthodontic measures, implantation of prostheses are necessary in the active period of growth and formation of maxillofacial and dental system after organ-destroying surgery for tumors and tumors-like formations in order to not only repair the anatomical shape but more so to optimize the conditions for normal functioning of the growing and forming maxillofacial and dental system of a child.