What is Facial Trauma Care

There are many possible causes for facial trauma such as motor vehicle accidents, accidental falls, sports injuries, interpersonal violence and work-related injuries. Types of facial injuries can range from injuries of teeth to serious injuries of the skin and bones of the face. Typically, facial injuries can be as diverse as, soft tissue injuries (skin and gums), bone injuries (fractures), or injuries to special regions (such as the eyes, facial nerves or the salivary glands). The patient should be treated by an oral and maxillofacial surgeon as they specifically trained to repair injuries to the mouth, face and jaws. Sometimes injuries caused by facial trauma can cause long-term problems if left untreated. For example, trauma to the mouth can cause teeth to become loose and crooked or the bite to become malaligned, problems that may require correction by multiple procedures.

What is Pathology of the Jaws

Any changes in the mouth or jaw from their normal appearance could be a warning sign for a possible pathological disease. These changes may be seen clinically on X-ray or a combination of the two. Treatment of the jaw pathology or disease may include the removal of various cysts or growths in the jaw bone and any or all infected teeth, if indicated. surgical care for patients with oral cancer, tumors and cysts of the jaws and perform reconstructive surgery. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons perform treatments on the, mouth, and jaws. for all.

What is Facial Asymmetry Correction

Facial asymmetry occurs whenever one side of the face does not match the other in size and shape. The most common reason for this problem is mainly due to different developmental patterns of the underlying facial bones and is most commonly seen in people who have some facial bone development issues such as cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial birth defects. Sometimes it may just be soft tissue only and the facial bones are fairly symmetric. But apart from these types of patients some people merely have a light or mild facial asymmetry of which the cause is not obvious or will ever be known.

In many cases of facial asymmetry, the most common finding or cause is that the lower jaw is different between the two sides. Because the lower jaw is movable (the only facial bone to do so) and has an L-shape in the back above which the jaw joint hinges,

What is Correction of Reduced Mouth Opening

The problem of reduced mouth opening, also known as 'lock jaw' or 'hypomobility' of the mouth is caused due to various factors. This particular clinical condition cannot be attributed to any particular disease or condition as it may be a symptom of a number of conditions. In healthy individuals, mouth opening is around 30-50mm. But when the mouth opening is limited to 20mm, the individual is said to have a reduced mouth opening or trismus. Common causes of trismus or reduced mouth opening include: TMJD, burn scars, radiation treatment to the jaw and head, arthritis, scleroderma, fibromyalgia, trauma, infection, impacted wisdom teeth, psychological conditions including stress, bruxism and grinding, congenital conditions and other muscluloskeletal conditions. In the asian population a common condition resulting from pan masala chewing is oral submucous fibrosis which is a precancerous condition, it can cause inability to open the mouth.

What is Minor Oral Surgery

Oral and maxillofacial surgeons can do a large number of surgical interventions in the mouth. The term "Minor oral surgery" refers to smaller operations and includes removing wisdom teeth, impacted teeth, and severely broken-down teeth, as well as apicectomies, biopsies and other procedures. Treatment Procedures are usually performed using routine local anaesthetic (injections) although sometimes sedation can be provided if necessary.

Removal of the impacted tooth, extraction of the badly decayed or damaged tooth, to repair fractures of jaw and other facial bones, biopsy of the oral lesions, to place implants, orthognathic surgery to correct the facial appearance, to repair cleft lip and cleft palate,