Oral and facial surgery encompasses both dentistry and medicine. Specialists in this field are both surgically and dentally qualified. You may see the departments in hospital described as Oral and Maxillofacial surgery.
Facial surgery at Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry consists of many different treatments including; Eyelid surgery, Nose reshaping, Ear reshaping, Face lifts and Mini lifts.
Wisdom teeth are often short of space and therefore do not fully grow (erupt) into the mouth. They often have a piece of gum over the back part of their biting surface; this makes them vulnerable to infection (pericoronitis). Lower wisdom teeth are very commonly infected. Such infections give symptoms such as swelling over the back part of the jaw, inability to open the mouth (trismus), pain especially to bite on the area, and a bad taste.
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