Maxillofacial surgery is a specialty that focuses on problems around the mouth, jaw, and neck. A dentist or orthodontist may refer patients to a maxillofacial surgeon if an issue is too difficult to correct with standard procedures alone. Maxillofacial surgeons treat conditions like wisdom teeth problems, misaligned jaws, facial injuries, dental implants, oral cancer, tumors, and cysts of the jaws. They also perform some cosmetic facial surgeries and can help reconstruct a patient's face if they have cancer or birth defects.

1. MaxillofacialSurgeryBy: Adriana Alfaro Morales

2. What is Maxillofacial Surgery?? Is a specialization of dentistry which focuses on problems around the mouth, jaw, and neck.

3. A dentist or orthodontist may refer a patient for maxillofacial surgery if an issue in the mouth is too difficult to correct with orthodontics or basic dental procedures alone.

4. This specialty is closely related to plastic surgery, neurosurgery and otolaryngology, she works closely overlapping in some respects, as well as the dental specialty of orthodontics and prosthodontics.

5. Maxillofacial Surgeons care for patients with: Problem wisdom teeth Facial pain Misaligned jaws

6. Treat accident victims suffering facial injuries Place dental implants

7. Care for patients with oral cancer Tumors and cysts of the jaws Facial cosmetic surgery

8. If a patient is diagnosed with cancer or tumors on the region of the face, maxillofacial surgery may play a role in the patient's treatment. In addition to working with a cancer specialist.

9. The patient can work with a surgeon to remove the damaged tissue and rebuild the face so that the patient is not subject to embarrassment as a result of strange physical appearance.

10. For people with birth defects and deformities, a referral for maxillofacial surgery can be life changing as cleft lips and palates and other disfiguring deformities.

11. With this specialization has changed many lives ...