MEDICAL-SOCIAL EXPERTISE OF CHILDREN WITH MAXILLOFACIAL MALFORMATIONS
Physical malformations may cause some certain functional impairments, may limit vital activity, with it more often - in the category “ability to communication” and sometimes they cause a disability. Medical-social expertise of adult people with disfiguring defects is a real complicated task connected with a necessity to take into consideration moral-esthetic criteria during examination of such persons. The most difficult problem is estimation of a degree of expressiveness of functional impairments and limitations of vital activity in children, especially because of the face disfigurement, the reason of which sometimes there arises in congenital developmental deformities, including cleft palate and lips. A cosmetic defect of the face in this case is often deepened because of insufficient efficacy and sometimes of impossibility of a complex reconstructive surgical treatment of the given pathology.