Surgical Dentistry

Surgical dentistry ranges from removing wisdom teeth, facial trauma to complex facial reconstruction.

An Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon (OMFS) is a dental specialist who focuses on surgery of the face, mouth, and jaw. OMFS role bridges both medicine and dentistry.

OMFS performs a wide range of procedures, from routine to high complex.
Here's a breakdown of the types of procedures:

Emergency Procedure Under Local Anesthesia:

Jaw swelling

Incision & drainage (I&D)

Trauma teeth

Immobilization

Fractured tooth fragments

Removal/ fixation

Avulsed tooth

Reimplantation

Lip laceration

Approximation/ suturing

Sports injury

Wound management like cleaning and managing pain

OPD Procedure Under Local Anesthesia / Nitrous Sedation:

Mobile teeth/ grossly decayed tooth

Non restorable

Wisdom tooth removal

Especially for impacted or infected ones

Surgical tooth extractions

For teeth that can't be removed by normal procedure

Dental implants

Placing titanium screws in the jawbone to support crowns/dentures

Bone grafting

To rebuild jawbone for implants or after trauma

Biopsies

For suspicious growths or lesions in the mouth /jaw

Dentolaveolar fracture

Intermaxillary Fixation (IMF)

Pre prosthetic surgery

Alvelo- laplasty, alveo- ridge augmentation, crown lengthening

Post Orthodontic surgery

Frenectomy, supracrestal fiborotomy

IPD Procedure Under General Anesthesia:

Advanced implant surgery

Zygoma implants (ZAGA), patient specific implants (PSI), Pterygoid implants

Surgical maxillary expander

Making small cuts in the upper jaw to help widen it, placing the expander, and then slowly turning it over time while the patient recovers in the hospital for a day or two.

Corrective jaw surgery

To fix misaligned jaws, underbite, overbite, or facial imbalance

Genioplasty

Reshaping or repositioning the chin

Treatment for sleep apnea

Moving the jaw forward to open the airway (maxillomandibular advancement)

Repair of facial fractures

Maxilla facial jaw, mandibular jaw cheekbone, orbital (eye socket), nasal fractures, condyle

Soft tissue injuries

Stitching complex facial lacerations, nerve and duct repair

Tumor/ cyst removal

Benign or malignant growths in the face, mouth or jaw

Reconstruction after cancer surgery

Rebuilding bone and soft tissue

Arthrocentesis or arthroscopy

Minimally invasive procedures to treat TMJ disorders

Open joint surgery

When other treatments fail

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