ACE: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

School of Medicine

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is the clinical discipline that focuses on the management of diseases, deformities, injuries, and defects of the oral and facial structures. With elements of dentistry, medicine, anesthesia, and surgery, the ACE provides exposure to a wide array of clinical conditions ranging from benign and malignant lesions and tumors, head and neck infections, cleft palate, oral/facial reconstruction, complex facial fractures to congenital and acquired deformities of the jaws and facial bones. Students will be active participants in clinical and didactic activities. Practice-based learning and systems-based practice methods will be emphasized. Students will have the opportunity to (1) enhance their fund of knowledge in clinically relevant overlapping areas of dentistry/oral surgery and medicine, (2) improve their working understanding of head and neck anatomy, (3) review common infections of the oral and head and neck region, (4) learn fundamental principles of head and neck reconstruction, and (5) participate in the delivery of clinic-based ambulatory anesthesia. Students will be expected to take facial trauma call.