The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMF) provides surgery to treat a wide variety of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face and jaws.
The various types of surgery we perform include the following:
Trauma
Injuries to the face from simple cuts to complex fractures of the facial bones
Head and Neck Cancer
Performing tumor resection and subsequent reconstruction
Facial Deformity and Jaw Dysfunction
Surgery to correct jaw/bite abnormalities (orthognathic), obstructive sleep apnea, cleft lip and palate, temporomandibular joint reconstruction and implant reconstruction of missing teeth
Dental Surgery
Surgery to remove teeth, which are infected, impacted or associated with cysts or tumors
Teaching
The Department also has responsibility for teaching at the undergraduate, graduate and continuing education levels in medicine, dentistry and nursing.
Research
The Department is active in clinical research in the specific areas of cleft lip and palate surgery, surgical management of obstructive sleep apnea patients, facial trauma, and reconstructive implant surgery.
