2 June 26, 1980 Summer Nebroskon
UNL Dentist develops
new bone-graft surgery
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Assembly-line surgery in South Africa
has led to extensive research for one of
Lincoln's new, oral-maxillofacial surgeons
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College of Dentistry. ....
Dr. James Edward Stakesby Lewis
has been using his knowledge to the bene
fit of Nebraksa residents since he moved
to Lincoln in 1978.
Lewis, 46, has recently developed a
new technique for using bone grafts to re
pair breaks to the bony structure that
supports the eye.
Such a break occurs when the eye is
hit, causing pressure in the eye itself. A
fairly common example would be a tennis
ball hitting the eye.
Pressure breaks bone
When this happens, the pressure
breaks the delicate bone below the eye.
Without the needed support, a person
will have double vision, an eye that can
not move and physical deformity.
"In past years, these cases were inop
erable," Lewis said. "More recently, a
plastic called Sialastic has been used to
form a support over the broken bone.
"However, bone grafting is by far
more desirable. Surgeons have avoided
using bone grafts because they call for a
second, rather major surgery to secure
the bone."
New method
Lewis has now developed a new
method for getting this bone from the
hip.
"What was once difficult is now a
minor operation," Lewis reported. "Peo
ple needing bone grafts for many reasons
can be helped by this new technique."
On June 15, Lewis will present a paper
on his new technique to the International
Association of Oral Surgeons in Ireland.
Technique ideas
Lewis said that his ideas for this tech
nique started in South Africa. He re
ceived his formal education in Johannes
burg and had a private practice there for
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seven years.
100 outpatients
On a typical Monday morning, Lewis
said, he would see 100 outpatients. Each
week he would average 20-30 major, com
plicated operations, such as fractures of
the facial skeleton, tumors, and deformi
ties. "The necessity was to operate eco
nomically," Lewis said. "A fast and accu
rate diagnosis followed by doing the
minimal surgery without doing too little.
"With such quantity there wasn't
time to do any repeated surgery. Nor was
there time to do more surgery than was
necessary."
Difficult decision
The hardest decision he has ever
made, he said, was to leave South Africa
and move to the United States.
"It was real trauma to both myself
and especially my wife and three chil
dren," Lewis said.
"We left South Africa because the po
litical system was changing the country.
Sons were being called into the military
where brainwashing was a part of their
training.
"Young people were being taught to
hate and want to kill all blacks. Families
that felt no racial prejudices were being
torn apart by this brainwashing."
He said he could not support what the
South African government was doing,
and moving to the United States was his
only alternative.
"Leaving behind personal property
and assets were just part of our sacri
fice," he said.
In 1967 Lewis moved to Durban where
he had a private practice and taught at
the University of Jatal Medical School
Hospital.
The hospital serves more than 5 mil
lion black people, Lewis said. It has 2,000
beds plus mattresses on the floor for
overflow patients, he said. Outlying con
valescent hospitals care for paitents who
have had surgery at the Natal Hospital,
he said.
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