Oral and maxillofacial surgery is without a doubt the best dental and medical-surgical discipline. Oral and maxillofacial (OMF) surgeons are definitely trained to handle a wide variety of conditions and injuries that affect the head, neck, mouth, jaw, and face and teeth. These conditions related to the head and neck area include:
-Misaligned Jaws.
-Impacted wisdom Teeth.
- Cancers of the head and neck.
- Temporomandibular Joint disorders and Prothesis.
-Dental Implants
- Reconstruction of the Oral and Maxillofacial Region.
-Facial skeletal malformations, Maxillofacial Trauma and Major wounds and defects management.
In fact, OMF surgeons are Dentists, Doctors, Aestheticians and Cosmetic surgeons. In addition, they are well trained in pain control, general and local anesthesia and deep sedation, speech pathologies, fillers and facial injections, radiology and microvascular surgery.
Moreover, OMF surgeons very often work in a close collaboration with multiple healthcare providers such as: general dentists and different dental specialists, anesthesia and ICU, oncology and radiation oncology physicians, vascular surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, internal medicine doctors and radiologists.
Simply and all to say: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons are both doctors and dentists saving life and offering impressive cosmetic and aesthetic clinical outcomes along with pretty smiles.
