Oral and maxillofacial surgery

What is oral and maxillofacial surgery?

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a surgical specialty that addresses the diagnosis of prevention and treatment of diseases, anomalies and aesthetic aspects of the apparatus that make up the mouth, teeth, head and neck.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is considered to be a medical discipline that studies, prevents, diagnoses, treats and rehabilitates congenital and acquired diseases of the head, skull, face and neck, also the oral cavity and jaws, and by last teeth. Acquired pathologies that are responsible for oral and maxillofacial surgery can be of tumor, traumatic, degeneration or aging.

Treatment with oral and maxillofacial surgery

The anatomical area of ​​competence for this medical specialty is super complex.

Therefore it extends to a wide variety of treatments. Among them, we cite some with reference to

• Sunken Cleft-Palate Lip Surgery
• In very complex pathologies that require interdisciplinary treatments
• Dentoalveolar surgery
• Maxillo-facial trauma
• Placement of dental implants
• Dental exodonces of parts included
• Frenectomies
• Preprosthetic surgeries
• Orthognathic surgeries
• Facial orthopedic surgery
• Reconstructive surgery (carving of bone flaps and soft tissue)
• Microsurgery.