The Maxillofacial Unit offers a wide range of treatments across all its specialties.
Treatments and specialties
- Oral surgery of all types – complex extractions (referral managed), jaw cysts, biopsies, pre-prosthetic surgery, apical surgery
- Oral medicine referrals – all forms of oral mucosal disease
- Head & neck pain diagnosis and treatment including TMJ disorders (jaw joint)
- 2 week rule for head and neck cancer
- Complex surgical dermatology cases (secondary and tertiary referral cases)
- Rapid access temporal artery biopsy service for GPs and hospital services
- Facial trauma, including facial fractures and soft tissue injury
- Thyroid & parathyroid surgery, MDT, one-stop service being developed
- Lymph node biopsy service for haematological malignancy
- Surgical airway service, including emergency airway
- Surgical management of dental/facio-cervical abscesses
- Facial deformity surgery (also known as orthognathic surgery) for growth disorders of facial skeleton
- Complex orthodontics
- Complex restorative dentistry
- Salivary gland surgery
- Botox service for drooling (neurological & palliative care patients)
- Mucosal harvest for urological reconstruction service
- 24-7 on-call service for facial/head & neck/dental trauma
- Paediatric head and neck surgery service
We work at Worthing, St Richard’s and Southlands hospitals and have one surgeon doing sessions at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, for major head & neck cancer cases.