Oral Surgery
Treatments
A specialist team within the dental division, providing care for patients with conditions affecting the mouth, jaws, face and neck.
Treatments
Our team manages a range of conditions including:
- Surgical removal of wisdom teeth
- Extraction of teeth and retained roots
- Management of complications such as or-antral communication
- Management of orofacial infections
- Treatment of benign and cystic lesions
- Dentoalveolar surgery in relation to orthodontic treatment
- Oral surgery treatment for prior to oncology treatment such as radiotherapy
- Management of patients at risk of and with established osteonecrosis of the jaw
- Endodontic surgery
- Biopsies
- Management of benign salivary gland diseases
- Insertion of osseointegrated dental implants including bone augmentation and soft tissue management
- Pain and anxiety control with conscious sedation
- Routine and complex treatment for medically at-risk patients
- Management of temporomandibular joint disorders
- Dentofacial deformity
- Clinical diagnosis of oral cancer and oro-mucosal diseases in tandem with the Oral Medicine department
Treatment modalities
According to the clinical needs of our patients we offer treatment under:
- Local anaesthesia
- Inhalation sedation with nitrous oxide
- Intravenous sedation with midazolam
- Intravenous sedation with propofol
- General anaesthetic
Multi-disciplinary teams
The oral surgery team is integral to many multi-disciplinary clinics.
We work alongside other dental specialities for:
- Oncology clinics
- Hypodontia clinics
- Orthodontic clinics
- Implant clinics
- Rapid access clinics