Oral and facial

General oral and maxillofacial surgery

• Outpatient clinics
  • Consultations for new and review patients
  • Local anaesthetic procedures
     
• Day stay general anaesthetic operating lists
  • Performed in Diagnosis and Treatment Centre

Specialised Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

• Facial skin surgery – performed under local anaesthetic
• Multidisciplinary clinics – facial deformity
• Inpatient operating lists – performed at Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford
• Restorative clinics – treatment planning clinics undertaken by a specialist prosthodontist for patients with complex restorative needs

Other activity

• Specialist advice for both general dental and medical practitioners
• Ward reviews of inpatients with oral and maxillofacial conditions
• Provision of clinical attachments for general dental practitioners, dental nurses, medical and dental students
• On-site maxillofacial laboratory

• Dentoalveolar surgery (removal of wisdom teeth and retained roots)
• Oral medicine (investigation of mouth ulcers, white patches, lumps and bumps)
• Facial pain (investigation and management of face, mouth and jaw joint pain)
• Salivary gland disease (treatment of salivary gland swellings, lumps and stones)
• Facial trauma (management of facial lacerations and fractures)
• Orthognathic surgery (treatment of patients with jaw alignment problems)
• Facial skin surgery (surgery for facial skin lesions including skin cancer)
• Oral cancer (treatment for mouth cancer)
• Head, face and neck lumps (investigation and treatment of any head and neck lumps or swellings)