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War Surgeons
This severely mutilated soldiers allowed the surgeons for total war new problems, which then not owned solutions. The restoration of the face made a return of the soldier to the trench or the civil society possible again. Without a recovery even this is not possible anymore. For this reason, this form of reparative or restorative surgery as a “social surgery” mentioned. Behind the front lines was desperately looking for a solution to this complicated facial mutilations. The combination of general surgical knowledge with dental or ear, nose and throat experience proved of great utility, since usually upper and lower jaw, nose, eye sockets and sinuses were involved in the accident.