Open AccessForensic-medical opinions to the assessment of irreparable consequences of facial trauma
Author(s) -
A. Kh Zaval'niuk,
Ihor Yukhymets,
Oleksandr Valeriiovych Kravets
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sudovo-medična ekspertiza
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2707-8728
pISSN - 2218-838X
DOI - 10.24061/2707-8728.1.2016.6
Subject(s) - disfigurement , face (sociological concept) , facial trauma , psychology , medicine , surgery , social science , sociology
The article deals with the searching of the ways to improve the forensic-medical examination of injuries to the face which cause irreparable consequences. The article reviews the current procedural and regulatory requirements for performing of such examinations, criteria of irreparable facial disfigurement, caused by trauma. It is proposed to grant the right to forensic-medical examiner (including a commision of experts) finally to estimate severity degree of injuries in cases of clear indubitable posttraumatic facial disfigurement. This is due to the fact that forensic-medical examiner has special medical knowledge in face anatomy and physiology, knows functions of its individual parts and also possessed of common to all mankind conception about disfigurement of organs and tissues.