Récentes publications

Principaux articles en relation avec l’histoire de la chirurgie

Médecine et chirurgie esthétique, de la Trotula à Guy de Chauliac, en passant par Henri de Mondeville. Bull. de la SFHO, 22: 55-66, 2008

Les premières opérations et les premiers chirurgiens. In : G. d’Andiran, La médecine ancienne, du corps aux étoiles, pp. 57-69. PUF 2010

Pierre Franco (1504-1580). A forgotten pionneer. ISAPS News 8 (1) : 26-28, 2014

Henri de Mondeville (1260-1320), a precursor in aesthetic surgery. ISAPS News  8 (2) : 42-44, 2014

Jaques Reverdin, the first skin graft? Story of a surgical innovationISAPS News 9 (1) 2015

Facial Surgery in the Antiquity. ISAPS News 9(2) 2015

Jaques Reverdin, la première greffe de peau et ses implications en ophtalmologie. Bulletin de la Société Francophone d’Ophtalmologie 35, 2015

Une prodigieuse opération chirurgicale à Neuchâtel vers 1550. Passé Simple, mensuel romand d’histoire et d’archéologie. 2015

The unspeakable history of thoracopagus twin’s separation. ISAPS News 9 (3) 2015

The birth of cephalometry. Part I. ISAPS News. 10 (1) 2016.

The history of head remodeling. ISAPS News. January-March 2017.

The history of noma disease and its surgical treatment. ISAPS News. 11 (2) 2017.

Honey, Copper, Wine and Wound Infection. ISAPS News 11, 4 2017.

Head shape configuration over the centuries. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 28 (8) 2017.

Law and Surgery: a Long History. ISAPS News. 12 (1) 2018.

Are Aesthetic Medecine and Surgery Immoral? ISAPS News. 12 (2) 2018.

The Mystery of the Vestibular Labyrinth. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 29 (7) 2018.

Allotransplantation, from Dream to Reality. ISAPS News. 12 (4) 2018.

Benateau H., Montandon, D. Historique de l’humanitaire moderne. In: L’Humanitaire en chirurgie maxillofaciale et en chirurgie plastique. H. Benateau (ed). Paris, Sauramps Medical.

Surgeons and the Law: A Long History. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 30 (2) 2019.

Joseph-François Malgaigne: Surgeon, historian, journalist, politician and polemist (1806-1865). ISAPS News. 13 (4) 2019.

At the Core of Surgery, the Fascinating Process of Wound Healing. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 31, 1, 2019.

Moral and Gender Issues in Aesthetic Medecine and Surgery. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 30, 5, 2019.

Faces, the Frontiers of Normality. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 30, 6, 2019.

Frankenstein, the Aesthetic Failure. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 31, 7, 2020.

 Icono-Diagnosis of Craniofacial disorders: The Eye of the Plastic Surgeon. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 31, 6, 2020.

Easter Island and Plastic Surgery in the Light of a Historical Study. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 31, 3,  2020.

 Allegorical and Emblematic  Women’s Faces. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 32, 3, 2021.

 The Face of the Robots. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 32, 5, 2021.

Louis Appia (1818–1898): Pionnier of humanitarian surgery and co-founder of the International Red Cross. ISAPS News, March 2022.

Surgical Use of progressive tissue expansion and elongation since antiquity. Part 1. Skin expansion and elongation. ISAPS. oct.-december 2022.

Montandon D., Malvido F. Microgravity, Levitation and Plastic Surgery. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.  33, 3, 2022.

Montandon D., Malvido Z. Regenerative Medicine and Surgery, a Millenary Quest. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. Volume 33,  6, 2022.

Montandon D  Surgical Use of progressive tissue expansion and elongation since antiquity. Part 2. Bone Distraction osteogenesis. ISAPS. jan.-march 2022.

Montandon D  Craniofacial Surgery for Mental Disorders: Trepanation, Stone of Madness and Third Eye. J. Craniofac. Surg. 35:1601-1605, 2024.

Montandon D  Faces in the Eye of the Mirrors. Faces without Mirror. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery 35, 2:365-370, 2024.

Montandon D  Chirurgie et médecine de guerre au temps de Louis Appia. In: Louis Appria, missionnaire de l’humanitaire. In Durant, Lathion, Schlösser (ed.), AVM ed. Münschen 2024.

Montandon D  Deux siècles de chirurgie à Genève: des barbiers aux professeures. In Société médicale de Genève, deux siècles de la Genève médicale. De Merloose, Aliaz, Ferrero, Junod (ed.) Genève 2024.

Montandon D  Transformation, Transmission and Transgression in Craniofacial Surgery « Autarchy ». J. Craniofac. Surg. 36:5-11, 2025.

Montandon D  Sculptors Making Facial Prostheses During and After World War I. ISAPSNews, March 2025.

Principaux articles sur le noma

Montandon Denys (1989) The sandwich epicranial flap for fullthickness cheek reconstruction in children. In: Caroni EP (ed) Craniofacial surgery, vol 3. Monduzzi, Bologna, pp 179–182.

Montandon Denys (1993) Traitement des séquelles de noma. Encyclopédie Méd Chir (Paris) Fr 22-050-T-10.

Montandon D, Gumener R, Pittet B (1996) The sandwich epicranial flaps. Plast Reconstr Surg 97: 302–312.

Montandon D, Lehmann C, Chami N (1991) The surgical treatment of noma. Plast Reconstr Surg 87:76-86.

Montandon D, Pittet B (1999) Chirurgie plastique humanitaire. Expérience personnelle et réflexions. Ann Chir Plast Esth. 44: 27-34.

Montandon D, Pittet B (2002) Reconstruction labiale dans les séquelles de noma. Ann Chir Plast Esthet. 47:520-535.

Montandon D (2007) Surgery of noma: a 20 years experience. Stomatologie   104:1-9.

Baratti-Mayer D, Pittet B, Montandon D, Bolivar I, Bornand JE, Hugonnet S, Jaquinet A, Schrenzel J, Pittet D (Geneva Study Group on Noma – GESNOMA) 2003: Noma: an “infectious” disease of unknown aetiology. The Lancet, Infectious Disease 3:419-431.

Baratti-Mayer D, Gayet-Ageron A, Hugonnet S, François P. Pittet B, Huyghe A, Bornand JE, Gervaix A, Montandon D, Schrenzel J, Mombelli A, Pittet D, (Geneva Study Group on Noma – GESNOMA) 2013: Risk factors for noma disease: a 6-year, prospective, matched case-control study in Niger. The Lancet global health Journal 1 : 87-96.

Montandon D 2018 The Progress on Noma Disease and Its Surgical Treatment. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Vol. 29, No 3  539-542.