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This is a concise and structured overview of current oral and maxillofacial practice, concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases affecting the mouth, jaws, face, and neck. It comprehensively coveres the syllabus for exit FRCS (OMFS).
List of contents
- 1: Ian Holland: Trauma
- 2: Brian Bisase and Cyrus Kerawala: Oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer
- 3: Ben Gurney, Roger Currie, and Carrie Newlands: Surgical dermatology
- 4: Katherine George and Rafal Niziol: Salivary glands
- 5: Daljit Dhariwal and Nigel Taylor: Orthognathic
- 6: David Koppel, Raju Sangra, and Emer Campbell: Craniofacial
- 7: Simon Van Eden: Cleft lip and palate
- 8: Helen Witherow and Paul Johnson: Aesthetics
- 9: Nigel Shaun Matthews and Ben Hechler: The temporomandibular joint
- 10: Hersh Saxena: Surgical principles and oral surgery
- 11: Katherine Fleming: Oral medicine
- 12: Brian Bisase: Eponyms in OMFS
- 13: Carrie Newlands and Cyrus Kerawala: Other useful facts
About the author
Carrie Newlands is a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. She was appointed in 2003 following training in Ireland and the south of England. She is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons in the exit FRCS OMFS and National Clinical Lead for the Department of Health e-Learning project in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Her interests include medical education and the management and reconstruction of patients with skin cancer, facial deformity and salivary gland disorders.
Cyrus Kerawala graduated from the University of London with honours degrees in both dentistry (The London Hospital, 1985) and medicine (St George's Hospital, 1992). After specialist training in the North East of England he was appointed as a Consultant in September 1999 and spent eight years at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford and North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke before moving to join the Head and Neck Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital in May 2008. His main research areas concern free tissue transfer, marginal control of disease and management of the neck. He is an examiner for the exit FRCS and in July 2013 was appointed as Clinical Lead for the NICE guidelines in upper airways tract cancer.
Summary
This is a concise and structured overview of current oral and maxillofacial practice, concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases affecting the mouth, jaws, face, and neck. It comprehensively coveres the syllabus for exit FRCS (OMFS).
