Honored for the clinical leadership and team culture that inspired this international network.
Born from teamwork in Santo André · Open to the world
One trauma team.
Without borders.
A professional forum where Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery teams preserve clinical experience, discuss decisions, and turn every well-documented case into shared education.
Clinician-ledModerated casesInternational collaboration
01 / ORIGIN
A hospital team rebuilt as an international learning network.
The project is inspired by the OMS trauma team coordinated by Professor Gino Emilio Lasco in Santo André, São Paulo. This environment was shaped by university-hospital exposure, multiple residency programs and close collaboration with specialties including neurosurgery.
This platform carries that same spirit forward: cases belong to patient care, but their lessons can strengthen an entire professional community.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, biomedical engineer and educator.
Professor Gino Emilio Lasco
Founding Member · In memoriamA CLINICAL AND EDUCATIONAL LEGACY
Professor Gino Emilio Lasco
A pioneering Brazilian Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon whose career helped open facial trauma and major maxillofacial surgery to generations of dental surgeons.
After graduating from the University of São Paulo School of Dentistry in the late 1940s, Professor Lasco completed two years of training in Otorhinolaryngology and two years in Plastic Surgery. Invited by Professor Raphael da Nova to work as a maxillofacial prosthetist, he helped rehabilitate patients with losses involving the nose, eye and zygomatic region and contributed to the development of maxillofacial prosthesis at USP.
His diagnostic revision and surgical treatment of a seven-year-old child with bilateral TMJ ankylosis in 1961 became part of the foundation for an OMS specialty in the service. In the early 1970s he established an intensive two-year residency. The published historical account credits him with training more than 200 specialists before retiring in 2004 at age 84.
His method joined a high clinical volume to daily case discussion, meticulous notebook records and multidisciplinary work with Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, General Surgery and Neurosurgery. Residents observed cases repeatedly before operating under supervision. Carlos A. Andreucci is a direct disciple of this educational tradition.
His greatest legacy was not a single operation. It was the creation of teams able to think, operate, teach and learn together.
A personal continuation
Carlos A. Andreucci trained within the Santo André university-hospital environment shaped by Professor Lasco's leadership and has studied this educational method for more than 25 years. The Maxillofacial Trauma Team carries that experience forward as an international forum for clinical memory, education and responsible discussion.
SELECTED LEGACY RECORDS
A first-person historical account of the development of hospital-based maxillofacial surgery and specialist education in Brazil.
Work arising from two decades of investigation, more than 10,000 examined patients and an extensive surgical experience reported by the team.
A lower-risk surgical approach developed after years of clinical use and approximately 60 reported cases.
An experimental program studying practical sterilization for instruments used in clinics, outpatient units and hospitals.
Professor Lasco coordinated the medical and artistic team responsible for preserving this historical record in 1985.
02 / CLINICAL FORUM
Cases as they were lived.
Structured so others can learn.
Not a conventional journal. Each accepted report is a detailed, de-identified clinical record with an editorial check for clarity, consent and educational value.
SPECIAL COLLECTION · 60+ YEARS
Lasco Historical Clinical Archive
A living notebook of cases treated by Professor Lasco’s team, reconstructed in clinical sequence and narrated as if each case had just arrived.
Public case historyMultiple treatment possibilitiesSole curator: Carlos A. AndreucciEnter the archive →
Craniofacial trauma
A shared record of decision-making, treatment and follow-up
↗Mandibular trauma
From emergency assessment to longitudinal outcome
↗Interdisciplinary care
OMS, neurosurgery and hospital teams around one patient
↗The first cases will be published only after the founding editorial board approves the submission and patient-protection policy.
03 / THE CASE RECORD
Low barrier to contribute.
High standard of documentation.
No research methodology is required. Authors follow one clinical sequence so every report remains useful, searchable and comparable.
- 01Clinical context
Presentation, mechanism, history, examination and relevant circumstances.
- 02Diagnostic record
De-identified photographs, imaging, differential diagnosis and risk assessment.
- 03Decision and treatment
Options considered, rationale, technique, interdisciplinary input and deviations.
- 04Outcome and reflection
Complications, follow-up, patient outcome, limitations and what the team learned.
Patient dignity comes before publication.Written consent, complete de-identification and editorial approval will be mandatory before any clinical image or record appears publicly.
04 / PROFESSIONAL PATHWAY
Membership that reflects contribution, not status alone.
Every constructive activity can build a transparent contribution record: submitting a case, discussing responsibly, reviewing a report, teaching, or supporting collaborative work. Levels are reviewed annually; honorary membership recognizes three years of sustained active participation.
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Registered MemberJoin with verified name and email
02
Active ContributorEarn points through cases, discussion and review
03
Clinical FellowSustained contribution after the first annual review
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Senior FellowLeadership in education, review and collaboration
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Honorary MemberThree years of active, ethical participation
05 / GOVERNANCE
Simple participation.
Serious professional standards.
The forum is designed to remain easy to enter and safe to trust. Membership begins with name and email; publication requires professional verification, patient protection and editorial review.
Editorial independence
Case acceptance is based on completeness, educational value, ethical documentation and respectful professional language, not prestige or commercial interest.
Patient protection
Cases must be de-identified. Clinical images require documented authorization. The editorial team may request additional masking or decline publication.
Constructive discussion
Members may question indications, decisions and outcomes, but criticism must address the clinical reasoning rather than attack the professional.
Transparent authorship
Every contributor is identified. Conflicts of interest, device relationships and meaningful collaborators must be declared with the case.
CONTRIBUTION POINTS
Activity creates progression.
Points document participation; annual promotion also requires professional conduct and editorial approval. Inactivity never creates automatic rank.
Accepted clinical case+50
Structured case review+15
Constructive clinical comment+5
Educational contribution+20
Collaborative research activity+30
Editorial or moderation service+20
06 / EDUCATION
A living guide beside a living community.
Manual revision desk
Readers may identify unclear passages, challenge concepts and propose corrections. Accepted feedback will be recorded for the next edition.
Editorial contact planned: contact@maxillofacialtraumateam.orgOMS52
Founding educational resource
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: A Residency Manual
483 pages and 52 chapters following the learning curve from foundations to independent surgical judgment. Readers will also be invited to identify unclear passages, challenge ideas and help shape future revisions.
07 / FOUNDING NETWORK
Help form the first international Maxillofacial Trauma Team.
Registration begins with only your professional name and email. Membership remains pending until email and professional eligibility are verified. The public directory will never display member email addresses.
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