We restore, repair and make whole those parts of the face which nature has given but which the fortune has taken away, not so much that they delight the eye but that they may buoy up the spirit and help the mind of the afflicted( GASPARE TAGLIACOZZI-1546-99) The twilight of the 20th century was a time of many advances in the management of head and neck cancer but perhaps none have been so, dramatic as those found in the reconstruction of defects of the maxillofacial region.