ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a unique specialty that demands a culmination of knowledge in both medicine and dentistry. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery includes procedures ranging from simple extraction of teeth to complicated cancer resections. In addition to this, we also manage the non-surgical management of conditions such as facial pain, oral mucosal disease and infections. The speciality also includes the diagnosis and surgical management of diseases, injuries and defects, including functional and esthetic aspects of hard and soft tissues of face & jaws. As Maxillofacial surgeons, we aim to give our best to our patients, to relieve them from pain and disease thereby ensuring as normal function and esthetics as possible.

FUNCTIONAL These include the essential functional surgeries like fixing broken facial bones due to any trauma, injury or assault; releasing temperomandibular joint ankylosis, cleft lip /palate surgery to correct the changes in facial structure caused by birth defect in the lip and palate, tumour resections, oral cancer surgeries and reconstructions and restorative work, including placement of dental implants.

ESTHETIC Jaw correction surgeries - orthognathic surgery that allows repositioning jaw bones three dimensionally, facial cosmetics and hair transplant procedures.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery has evolved enormously over the past few years and the recent advancements have widened the scope of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Hence, there is a demand for the surgeons to keep educating and updating themselves. This would enable them to give their best to their patients. This page will serve as a platform for the young aspiring surgeons to refresh their knowledge from the experienced and will help the surgeons to be updated with the recent advancements.