What is Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery?
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a specialized field of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and surgical management of various conditions related to the mouth, jaw, face, and neck regions. Practitioners in this discipline are oral and maxillofacial surgeons, who are dental specialists with extensive training that encompasses both dentistry and surgery.
These surgeons address a wide range of issues, including impacted wisdom teeth, facial trauma resulting from accidents or injuries, congenital facial deformities, jaw misalignments, oral pathology, and the placement of dental implants. The field often involves complex surgical procedures, such as orthognathic surgery to correct severe bite discrepancies, reconstructive surgery following facial trauma, and the removal of tumors affecting the oral and facial structures.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery plays a crucial role in improving both the functional and aesthetic aspects of patients’ oral and facial health, contributing to enhanced quality of life and overall well-being.
In addition to their surgical expertise, oral and maxillofacial surgeons collaborate closely with other medical and dental specialties to provide comprehensive care. They may work in hospitals, private practices, or academic institutions.

After tooth extraction high fever, non-stop bleeding, painful swelling with redness and bad odor complaint if you have blood mixed with saliva 4-5 days after a tooth extraction, swelling and difficulty in opening the mouth, if still persists, contact your doctor immediately
Dental losses of individuals depend on many causes. Gum disease, trauma, delayed treatment, or malpractice is the beginning of these. In patients who have had tooth extraction as treatment, the pull gap over time disrupts the patient’s existing closing and chewing function. Therefore, these cavities need to be treated as functional and aesthetic. There are several treatment options available for this. Today, the most popular treatment option is the Implant, which is made of tissue-compatible titanium metal materials are used. There are stages of applying this treatment. First of all, the patient’s medical history should be examined very well and wound healing should be evaluated. In individuals with Normal wound healing process and who are in good general health, clinical examination is then carried out. Clinical examination is supported by a panoramic X-ray taken from the patient or, if necessary, computed tomography. In these X-rays, whether the width and length of the patient’s bone is suitable for implant application, anatomical formations are evaluated.
At this stage, after approval is given, the implant application is carried out under appropriate anesthesia. In order for Implant application to be performed, bone development in individuals needs to be completed. For this, boys must be 18 and girls 16-17 years of age. The biggest advantage of Implant treatment compared to other prosthetic treatments is that while the implant is placed in the cavity formed by tooth extraction, other adjacent teeth do not need to be cut and reduced. Thus, the health of the other adjacent teeth is not to be played. In addition, the waiting process varies according to the brand of implant used. After placing the brandimplants we use, it is necessary to wait 6 weeks in the lower jaw and 6-8 weeks in the upper jaw for the implant to boil into the jawbone. In some cases, as soon as the implants are placed, the superstructure is done. However, some measurements need to be made in order to do this. After the implants have been placed and waited long enough, healing heads are inserted to open the implants to the oral environment. After 1 Week, the prosthetic stage is passed. In order to achieve successful implant treatment, the correct diagnosis and diagnosis should be made first and foremost, the correct planning should be made and then successful prosthetic treatment should be made.
General anesthesia is the type of anesthesia in which a state of narcosis is provided by giving the patient intravenous drugs and tranquilizer gas. It is often preferred in patients with fear and anxiety, in people with mental retardation and in cases where local anesthesia is not sufficient. Sedation is the anesthesia in which the patient is provided with only intravenous drugs to sleep on the data. Sedation has no drug effect; therefore, patients are also given local anesthesia to numb the area of surgery.