Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is 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.
Area of Specialty
We treat problems such as the extraction of wisdom teeth, misaligned jaws, tumors and cysts of the jaw and mouth, and to perform dental implant surgery.] The scope of this specialty is extensive and concerns the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the oral (mouth) and maxillofacial (face and neck) regions, including the following:
Oral and Dentoalveolar Surgery (removal of impacted and buried teeth, cysts, etc.)
Preprosthetic Surgery (bone augmentation)
Dental implant surgery and associated bone grafting (to replace missing teeth or stabilise dentures; rehabilitation of patients having undergone surgery for tumours; to retain facial prostheses)
Orthognathic surgery (dentofacial deformities)
Facial trauma surgery (facial bone fractures and injuries)
Surgery of Odontogenic and non-odontogenic Tumors
Reconstructive surgery
Cleft lip and palate surgery
Congenital craniofacial deformities
Facial plastic surgery (rhinoplasty, rhytidectomy, blepharoplasty, facial implants, etc.)