Oral and Facial Health

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Oral and Facial Health

Our oral and maxillofacial surgeons are experts in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the face, mouth, teeth and jaws.

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What Is Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery?

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a speciality that’s often seen as the bridge between medicine and dentistry. It covers the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of common and complex conditions affecting the face, mouth, teeth and jaws.

At OneWelbeck, our maxillofacial surgeons provide expert care for a wide range of problems. They also have expertise in several sub-specialist areas of maxillofacial medicine, including:

  • Surgical treatment of head and neck cancer
  • Surgery for craniofacial deformity
  • Oral medicine
  • Craniofacial trauma
  • Cosmetic surgery

Oral & Facial Health at OneWelbeck

Why would you see a maxillofacial surgeon?

Many types of injuries and conditions are treated within the oral and maxillofacial specialty. You may require oral or maxillofacial surgery if you experience:

  • Facial trauma
  • Head or neck cancer
  • Salivary gland disorders
  • Facial disproportion or deformity
  • Facial pain
  • Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders
  • Impacted teeth
  • Oral cysts and tumours
  • Oral mucosa conditions, such as mouth ulcers and infections

Operations performed by an oral and maxillofacial surgeon

At OneWelbeck, a range of oral and maxillofacial surgeries are carried out in an outpatient setting. These are procedures that require a local anaesthetic or light sedation, such as:

  • Placement of dental or facial implants pre-implant surgery
  • Removal of impacted teeth
  • Intra-oral and facial soft tissue procedures

If you need to have a more complex procedure that requires a general anaesthetic, you’ll be cared for as an inpatient, which means you’ll stay in hospital for at least one night. These procedures include:

  • Facial trauma surgeries: for the management of complex craniofacial fractures and soft tissue injuries of the mouth, face and neck
  • Diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer: surgery is done to access and ablate tumours
  • Reconstructive surgery: microvascular free tissue transfer (free-flap surgery) is performed after tumour removal to reconstruct the site
  • Tooth removal: the removal of impacted teeth and complex buried dental roots
  • Tumour surgery: involves the surgical removal of cysts and tumours of the jaws and removal of complex facial skin tumours and reconstruction