ABSTRACT
In the United States, nearly two million people are burned each year. Approximately 100,000 cases are severe enough to require hospitalization, and roughly 5000 deaths occur secondary to burn injury and related complications each year. As the face is exposed during most daily activities, it is one of the more commonly injured anatomic structures. Approximately 43% of burns admitted to one large burn center over a four-year period included a facial injury. Former burns of the face create some of the most emotionally disfiguring injuries and with such a high potential incidence, management of the facial burn patient remains a difficult clinical problem with a grave social impact.
