Léon Dufourmentel

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Léon Dufourmentel (born 1884, died July 29, 1957)[1] was a French surgeon, son of a merchant, who specialized in maxillofacial surgery, leading to reconstructive surgery. Intern of Hospitals of Paris, then leader of the clinical faculty of medicine of Paris. He was the son-in-law of the anatomist Pierre Sebileau, and the father of plastic surgeon Claude Dufourmentel (Former head of department at the Hôpital Saint-Louis).

During the First World War, he was responsible for caring for Gueules cassées, and being led to the creation of units of maxillofacial surgery, he found a method for filling wounds in flesh: He removed a flap of scalp (called a Dufourmentel flap)[2] from the skulls of patients and mainly grafted on the chin. There was, therefore, no possible rejection. It was the first idea of using prosthetic inclusions prior to 1930 - then implants used were mostly made of ivory, rubber on the nose.

Works and Contributions

  • La loi de Semon-Rosenbach dans les paralysies récurrentielles, 1914.
  • La Chirurgie faciale aux Etats-Unis
  • Chirurgie d'urgence des blessures de la face et du cou, 1918, avec le docteur Flavien Bonnet-Roy.
  • Diagnostic, traitement et expertise des séquelles des blessures et des accidents des régions maxillo-faciales: traitements chirurgicaux, 1922, avec le docteur Léon Frison, publié par Baillière.
  • Le rictus - journal humoristique médical - N°04, septembre 1924. Biographie du docteur Léon Dufourmentel par Portmann, biographie du docteur Georges Portmann (de Bordeaux) par L. Dufourmentel
  • Chirurgie de l'articulation temporo-maxillaire, 1929.
  • Chirurgie réparatrice et correctrice des téguments et des formes, 1939.
  • Léon Dufourmentel. Introduction à la chirurgie constructive : Essai sur l'art et la chirurgie, 1946.
  • Les complexes esthétiques et la chirurgie, 1957.

References

  1. "[Death of Leon Dufourmentel, titular member (1884-1957).]". Mem Acad Chir (Paris) (in French) 83 (25-26): 794–5. 6 October 1957-Nov 30. PMID 13503638. 
  2. Léon Dufourmentel at Who Named It?
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