Vladimir Mikhailovich Uvarov, distinguished Russian dentist and maxillofacial surgeon, professor and colonel of medical service

Abstract

On the memory page among the Russian dentists and maxillofacial surgeons, it is impossible not to remember the outstanding figure in the worlds military medicine and practical health care, doctor of medical sciences, professor, and colonel of the medical service Vladimir Mikhailovich Uvarov. The study aimed to present scientific, clinical, pedagogical, and social activity of the outstanding dentist and maxillofacial surgeon, doctor of medicine, professor, and colonel of the medical service Vladimir Mikhailovich Uvarov, including his merits in military medicine. On the basis of the analysis of the Russian literature as well as the life, professional activity, and scientific works of Prof. V.M. Uvarov, doctor of medical sciences and colonel of medical service, we present his role in the formation and development of dentistry, maxillofacial surgery, and military medicine in Russia. There is no section of stomatology that V.M. Uvarov would not have paid attention to. He successfully defended 28 dissertations for the degree of candidate of science under his supervision. He is the author of more than 150 scientific works, including six monographs, a textbook, chapters in manuals, and textbooks. He was the author of the chapter on anesthesia and local anesthesia, written for the first textbook in the country Surgical Dentistry (1938). He was an honorable member of the all-union and all-Russian scientific society of dentists of the country; was a great pedagogue; generously shared his scientific, medical, and pedagogical experience with students, cadets, listeners, and lecturers; and carried out great therapeutic and consultative work. His name is among the outstanding maxillofacial surgeons of the country. He proposed the use of an extra-oral apparatus for the fixation of mandibular fractures and other innovations in the field of maxillofacial surgery and dentistry. At present, the students and followers of Vladimir Mikhailovich Uvarov keep him in their memory as a prominent organizer of military and civil health care, a clinician, a scientist, a teacher, and a model of man and humanity. He is remembered and loved.