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Treatments performed on the craniomaxillofacial complex: mouth, jaws, face, neck, skull, and include:

  • Dentoalveolar surgery (surgery to remove impacted teeth, difficult tooth extractions, extractions on medically compromised patients, bone grafting or preprosthetic surgery to provide better anatomy for the placement of implants,dentures, or other dental prostheses)
  • Surgery to insert osseointegrated (bone fused) dental implants and maxillofacial implants for attaching craniofacial prostheses and bone anchored hearing aids.
  • Cosmetic surgery of the head and neck: (rhytidectomy/facelift, browlift, blepharoplasty/Asian blepharoplasty, otoplasty,rhinoplasty, septoplasty, cheek augmentation, chin augmentation, genioplasty, oculoplastics, neck liposuction, lip enhancement, injectable cosmetic treatments, botox, chemical peel etc.)
  • Surgical treatment and/or splinting of sleep apnea, maxillomandibular advancement, genioplasty
  • Diagnosis and treatment of:
  • benign pathology (cysts, tumors etc.)
  • malignant pathology (oral & head and neck cancer) with (ablative and reconstructive surgery, microsurgery)
  • cutaneous malignancy (skin cancer), lip reconstruction
  • congenital craniofacial malformations such as cleft lip and palate and cranial vault malformations such ascraniosynostosis, (craniofacial surgery)
  • chronic facial pain disorders
  • temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders
  • Dysgnathia (incorrect bite), and orthognathic (literally "straight bite") reconstructive surgery, orthognathic surgery,maxillomandibular advancement, surgical correction of facial asymmetry.
  • soft and hard tissue trauma of the oral and maxillofacial region (jaw fractures, cheek bone fractures, nasal fractures,LeFort fracture, skull fractures and eye socket fractures).

Craniofacial surgery is a surgical subspecialty of plastic surgery and oral and maxillofacial surgery that deals withcongenital and acquired deformities of the skull, face, and jaws. Although craniofacial treatment often involves manipulation of bone, craniofacial surgery is not tissue-specific, i.e., craniofacial surgeons deal with bone, skin, muscle, teeth, etc. Craniofacial surgery does not, however, include surgery of the brain or eye.

Defects typically treated by craniofacial surgeons include craniosynostosis (isolated and syndromic), rare craniofacial clefts, acute and chronic sequellae of facial fractures, cleft lip and palate, micrognathia, Treacher Collins Syndrome, Apert's Syndrome, Crouzon's Syndrome, hemifacial microsomia and many others.