Clinical case of noma treatment

Abstract

This paper presents a clinical case of soft tissues noma of the face and facial skeleton in an adult female patient, treated at the Department of Surgery Dentistry, N.S. Karpovich Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medical Aid, Krasnoyarsk. The primary surgical treatment of noma resulted in formation of a through defect of the right cheek and pronounced scar contracture of the lower jaw, which requires additional reconstructive surgery. Taking into account that тomф is a very rare disease in the dental surgeon’s practice, they failed to establish the correct diagnosis of the patient correctly. We believe that the reason for such a long period of verification of the diagnosis was the mirror similarity of the clinical picture of the development and course of noma (water cancer) with the development and course of the malignant maxillofacial pathology.