The department was established in 2003 with an aim for providing surgical care at an affordable cost in the Oral & Maxillofacial region. The dept. has a floor space of approx. 7000 Sq ft for out patients, Exodontia and minor surgical work.
Facilities
Major surgeries are performed in Mamata General and Super Speciality Hospital which is a 780 bed Multi Specialty teaching Hospital of the Mamata Medical College.. The state-of-the-art facilities include 12 Operation Theatres, a Post Operative Ward, Acute Medical Care Unit, Intensive Coronary Care Unit (ICCU), and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) besides super specialties like Cardiology & Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology & Urology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery & Transfusion Medicine Departments.
Exclusive Operation Theater and male and female wards are provided in the adjacent specialty hospital. The department conducts a variety of surgeries:
- Maxillo Facial trauma
- TMJ surgeries
- Cleft Lip & Palate
- Surgical excision of Cysts & Tumours
- Esthetic surgeries of the face
- Oral cancer
- Distraction Osteogenesis
- Rhinoplasty
Continuous, Inter-departmental and Inter-institutional Referrals, Clinical meets, Multi-disciplinary approaches for Plastic and Maxillofacial surgery, Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Neuro-surgery, Urology are some of the specialty services provided by the department
Objectives
- To obtain proper clinical history, methodical examination of the patient, perform essential diagnostic procedures and other relevant laboratory tests and interpret them and to arrive at a reasonable diagnosis about the surgical condition.
- To perform with competence minor oral surgical procedures and common maxillofacial surgery. To treat both medically and surgically (or by other means of the oral and maxillofacial and the related area)
- Capable of providing care for maxillofacial surgery patients.
- Develop adequate communication skills particularly with the patients giving them the various options available to manage particular surgical problems and obtain a true informed consent from them for the most appropriate treatment available at that point of time.
- Develop the ability to communicate with professional colleagues.
- Develop ability to teach undergraduates.
- Develop ability to undertake research work independently.