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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 1999;1:226.

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PROFESSOR ALEXANDER A. LIMBERG, MD (1894-1974), the son of 2 dentists, graduated from the Petrograd School of Dentistry in 1916 and received his medical degree from the Military Academy of Medicine in 1919. He created the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Leningrad Stomatological Institute and remained its department head until 1950. Early in his career Limberg contributed many substantial works in the areas of cleft palate repair, mandibular advancement using L-shaped osteotomies and bone grafts, and one of the first reports on sagittal osteotomies for the treatment of the retrusive mandible.¹

Figure appears in full text version. Professor Alexander A. Limberg, MD (1894-1974).

Limberg spent many years analyzing the changes in the solid geometry of tissues that occur in Z-plasty and was frustrated by the empiric approach used in the planning of flaps and Z-plasties. In 1963 he published his book The Planning of Local Plastic Operations on the Body Surface: Theory and Practice.² . . . [Full Text of this Article]