[The forensic medical evaluation of injuries to the maxillofacial region]

The problem of forensic medical evaluation of injuries to the maxillofacial region remains a serious challenge to the practical activities in forensic medicine and awaits solution. The present article proposes the original classification of the injuries to the maxillofacial region that makes possible their rational structurization. A number of issues and peculiarities of forensic medical diagnostics, expert evaluation of the harm to health and time of infliction of injuries to selected parts of the maxillofacial region are considered in the context of the new classification. Special attention is given to certain aspects of expert evaluation of the injuries to the teeth, periodontum, and oral cavity mucosa as well as to the post-traumatic functional defects of nasal breathing.