44^th World Dental Science and Oral Health Congress

Craniofacial Surgery

Craniofacial Surgery is the field of head surgery that treats congenital and facial defects. This is also a component of oral, maxillofacial, and plastic surgery. But it focuses particularly on disorders and accidents that result in head trauma.

Congenital and acquired malformations of the head, skull, face, neck, jaws, and related structures are treated by the surgical subspecialties of cranial and maxillofacial surgery. Although bone manipulation is frequently a part of craniofacial treatment, craniofacial surgery does not focus on any particular tissue; instead, it deals with bone, skin, nerve, muscle, teeth, etc. Craniofacial reconstruction is the name given to a series of treatments used to recreate the head and face of a person who is dead or missing or to repair or remodel the face and skull of someone who is still alive.