Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Strategies in Head and Neck Surgery

Dear Colleagues,

Due to its anatomical complexity, head and neck surgery is increasingly becoming a multidisciplinary pathology. Because of the multifunctional anatomical intricacies of the head and neck, disease progression and therapy-related side effects often severely affect the patient’s appearance and self-image, as well as their ability to breathe, speak, and swallow. In present times, head and neck pathologies require a combination of multiples specialties working together, from the easy and basic affections of the oral cavity (such as odontogenic cyst, rhinosinusitis, dentofacial malformation, OSAS, and MRONJ) to more complex situations, such as epithelial malignancies of the upper aerodigestive tract (nasal cavity, oral cavity, oropharynx, pharynx, hypopharynx, and larynx), cutaneous malignancies of the head and neck region, and malignant tumors arising from different cell types of the thyroid and salivary glands, as well as simple and complex traumas. The enlistment of patients involves various specialists, such us oral surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, head and neck surgeons, and dermatologists, as well as prosthodontists. An aim of providing the final recovery of aesthetics and functions throughout a close cooperation of different medical specialists should be a requirement of head and neck surgery. It is almost of gold standard that these patients need personalized treatment strategies involving all the mentioned specialties in a multidisciplinary approach. These factors make both head and neck surgery and its management especially difficult for patients, as well as motivating us to develop the field forward to create a “tailor made” solution from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Areas in particular need of novel insights include the treatment of recurrent and metastatic disease and the personalization of treatment based on the molecular characteristics of individual tumors.

For the above reasons, in this Special Issue, we welcome clinical research papers, basic translational professional opinions, and reviews in the broad field of multidisciplinary therapeutic surgical and rehabilitative strategies in head and neck surgery.

Dr. Salvatore Crimi
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Cervino
Dr. Riccardo Nocini
Guest Editors

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