Penza, 15 December 2019. PenzaNews. The centre of maxillofacial surgery and rehabilitation is planned to be created at the premises of Burdenko Penza Regional Clinical Hospital in 2020. This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Health.

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It is expected that its specialists will treat patients with congenital pathologies of the maxillofacial area, injuries and purulent-inflammatory diseases using new technologies.

For this purpose, the region will also allocate children hospital rooms – to provide highly qualified medical care for children in the field of maxillofacial surgery.

According to the Ministry of Health of Penza region, the number of children with congenital pathologies of the maxillofacial region is increasing annually in Penza.

At the same time, this year the doctors of the hospital named after N. Burdenko have performed operations using new methods and technologies for the first time.

According to Marat Lebedev, the head of the maxillofacial surgery department of the Penza regional hospital, on August 23rd a five-month-old child had a through-sided one-way cleft of the upper lip of the alveolar process of the palate cured, and on November 26th a 6-year-old patient underwent veloplasty.