The training behind it
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are the specialists hospitals call for facial injury. Residency is spent on emergency service managing exactly this: mandible and midface fractures, orbital floor injuries, dentoalveolar trauma and soft tissue repair.
Both surgeons at OAKS trained in that setting, on medically complex patients as well as straightforward ones.
What we treat
Fractures of the lower jaw, upper jaw, cheekbone and eye socket. Teeth that have been knocked out, driven into the bone or fractured at the root. Lacerations of the lip, cheek, tongue and facial skin, where the priority is a repair that heals with a scar you do not notice.
If an injury has just happened
Severe bleeding, difficulty breathing, loss of consciousness or a suspected skull or neck injury means the emergency department, not a dental office. Call 911.
For an avulsed permanent tooth, handle it by the crown and not the root, rinse it gently in milk or saline without scrubbing, and if you can, reseat it in the socket and hold it there. If you cannot, keep it in milk and get to us straight away. The first hour matters more than anything else that follows.
Nothing on this page replaces an examination. What is right for you depends on your imaging, your medical history and what you want out of the result. We will set all of that out at the consultation, in plain language.
