Features of the organization of dental care in besieged Leningrad

Abstract

There is not much information about the provision of dental care during the Great Patriotic War, even fewer publications concerning dental care in besieged Leningrad. Three frontline evacuation hospitals were located in the clinics of the Military Medical Academy, where doctors and the entire medical staff of the Academy worked. The main responsibility for the organization of dental care and specialized assistance to servicemen with wounds of the maxillofacial region was assigned to the chief dentist of the Red Army David Abramovich Entin and the Navy Vladimir Ivanovich Uvarov. The hospitals were formed on the basis of clinics of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute, including clinics of maxillofacial surgery. At the II Leningrad Medical Institute during the blockade, extremely urgent problems of combating scurvy were developed. An important place in the provision of surgical and orthopedic care in besieged Leningrad was occupied by the Central State Institute of Traumatology named after Professor R.R. Vreden, where A.A. Limberg and his colleagues worked. Dental care in besieged Leningrad was provided as part of medical and preventive institutions, as of November 1, 1942, dental outpatient clinics of Vasileostrovsky, Volodarsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrogradsky districts were successfully functioning. After the end of the blockade of the city in 1944, active work began on the restoration of the city. During the reconstruction of the city, the number of new medical institutions has also increased. In the autumn of 1944, the construction of the 2nd clinical base of GIDUVA was completed, in which the clinic of reconstructive maxillofacial surgery was located. The problem of the health of people who survived the blockade of the city of Lenin remains relevant today - many decades later. Numerous publications were devoted to generalizing the experience of treating wounded with maxillofacial injuries in combat conditions.