Maxillofacial gunshot wounds in peacetime.

: The treatment of maxillofacial gunshot wounds in peacetime is an urgent and difficult problem. The emergence of new types of civilian weapons and relatively small current clinical experience does not allow generating recommendations for the treatment of this pathology. It presents a statistical analysis of injuries in St. Petersburg 2004-2014 restricted firearms destruction and experimental study of the harmful effect of these weapons on the fabric maxillofacial experimental animals (pigs). The features of the clinical picture, diagnosis and surgical treatment of wounds of the maxillofacial region, caused by a firearm -restricted lesions and wounds with extensive tissue damage maxillofacial caused a hunting weapon are considered.