Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a branch of surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.

It is a recognized international surgical specialty and it is one of the nine specialties of dentistry.

Scope of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery:

Dentoalveolar Surgery

• Surgery to remove impacted teeth.
• Difficult tooth extractions.
• Extractions on medically compromised patients.
• Bone grafting or preprosthetic surgery to provide better anatomy for the placement of implants, dentures, or other dental prostheses).

Diagnosis and Treatment

• Benign and malignant pathology, cysts, tumors etc.
• Congenital craniofacial malformations such as cleft lip and palate and cranial vault malformations such as craniosynostosis, (craniofacial surgery)
• Soft and hard tissue trauma of the oral and maxillofacial region (jaw fractures, cheek bone fractures, nasal fractures, LeFort fracture, skull fractures and eye socket fractures).
• Chronic facial pain disorders.
• Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders.

Cosmetic Surgery

• Rhytidectomy / facelift.
• Browlift / blepharoplasty.
• Otoplasty.
• Rhinoplasty.
• Septoplasty.
• Cheek augmentation.
• Chin augmentation.
• Genioplasty.
• Neck liposuction.
• Hair transplant.
• Lip enhancement.
• Injectable cosmetic treatments.
• Botox.
• Chemical peel.