Maxillo-Facial Surgery / Dentistry

Maxillo-Facial Surgery / Dentistry

DENTISTRY / DENTO-FACIAL CARE

Procedures:

• Scaling and Polishing of Teeth: Removal of stains and deposits on the surface of teeth.
• Tooth Restorations: Tooth coloured fillings for cavities.
• Teeth Whitening: Professional tooth bleaching.
• Cosmetic Dentistry: Smile designing, lips cocontouring.
• Fixed and removable braces, clips, treatment.
• Root Canal Treatment (RCT).
• Gums Surgery: Management of loose teeth.
• Paediatric Dentistry: Counseling of pediatric patients about oral hygiene, tooth fillings including pit and fissure sealants, fluoride therapy, endodontic treatment, extraction, habit (like thumb sucking, mouth breathing) breaking appliances, growth modulation appliances.
• Teeth Extraction: Removal of hopeless teeth.
• Dental Caps, Bridges.
• Removable Teeth Set: Partial and complete dentures.
• Tooth veneers.
• Dental Implants: Use of titanium screws and bone support for replacement of missing teeth.
• Removal of Wisdom Teeth and Impacted teeth: Teeth embedded inside jaw bones.
• Tobacco cessation counseling

MAXILLO-FACIAL SURGERY

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a branch of surgery dealing with trauma, disease and deformity of the hard and soft tissues of the face, head and neck, mouth and jaws, and facial cosmetic surgery.

Some procedures done by oral and maxillofacial surgeon are:

• Fixation of facial bone fractures and facial trauma care. Management of fractures of bones of the nose, eye sockets, cheeks, upper and lower jaws, jaw joint fractures. Soft tissue wounds management of face.
• Dentoalveolar Surgery- Surgery to remove impacted teeth (teeth embedded in the bones), wisdom teeth, bone grafting in jaw bones, preprosthetic surgery to provide better anatomy for the placement of implants, dentures, or other dento-facial prostheses.
• Biopsy of oral lesions.
• Management benign and malignant pathology, cysts and tumors of the face, jaws and mouth.
• Oral cancer management.
• Dental & Maxillofacial Implantology- Placement of implants in the jaw bones and other areas of the face to facilitate fixation of prostheses (artificial body parts) such as artificial teeth, artificial eyes, artificial ears and the like.
• Management of oral submucous fibrosis and precancerous lesions and conditions.
• Orthognathic surgery. Shape correcting jaw surgeries for facial deformities like bigger or smaller jaws.
• Correction of facial birth defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate.
• Salivary gland diseases including tumors.
• Diagnosis and management of facial pain.
• Jaw joint (TMJ) surgeries.
• Reconstruction for facial defects.
• Facial cosmetic surgery- facelift, browlift, otoplasty, rhinoplasty, cheek augmentation, chin augmentation, genioplasty, neck liposuction, lip enhancement, injectable cosmetic treatments, botox, etc