Oral and Maxillofacial Medical Imaging Department
The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medical Imaging of the Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School (Nanjing Stomatological Hospital) is one of the earliest-established specialties of its kind in China. It is the largest oral and maxillofacial medical imaging specialty in Jiangsu Province, with advanced equipment and excellent technical expertise. It is currently a national standardized residency training base for oral and maxillofacial medical imaging, as well as a key clinical specialty of Jiangsu Province and Nanjing Municipality. The department currently has 1 professor and 1 associate professor at Nanjing University, 2 master's degree supervisors, and all imaging diagnostic physicians have master's degrees or higher. Professor Wang Tiemei, the academic leader of the discipline, currently serves as Chair of the Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association, is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists (ICD), Editor-in-Chief of the National Health and Family Planning Commission's standardized residency training planning textbook «Stomatology: Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging Volume», an expert in the Stomatology Group for research on the clinical practice competency assessment scheme for national standardized residency training, Leader of the Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging Expert Group of the Expert Committee for Standardized Residency Training of Jiangsu Province, and academic leader of a provincial-level key clinical specialty in Jiangsu Province, among other positions. The department currently has a Siemens 64-slice spiral CT, NEWTOM VGi, NEWTOM VG, KaVo 3D eXam and ProMax 3D Mid oral and maxillofacial cone-beam CT units, a large digital radiography system DR, a digital panoramic machine, a digital dental imaging system, a self-service medical film printing system, a color Doppler ultrasound scanner, and other imaging equipment. In recent years, adhering to the philosophy of pursuing excellence, precision, and specialization, the department has developed distinctive expertise in the imaging and radiographic diagnosis of oral and maxillofacial diseases, including tumors, trauma, inflammation, orthognathic surgery and orthodontics, temporomandibular joint diseases, salivary gland diseases, oral implantology, and dental, endodontic, and periodontal diseases, reaching an advanced level in China. The specialty technique developed in recent years—cone-beam CT imaging for cracked teeth—received the First Prize of the 2021 Jiangsu Province Medical New Technology Introduction Award. The department has received a total of 16 awards, including the Third Prize of the Jiangsu Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of the Jiangsu Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, and the Third Prize of the Nanjing Science and Technology Progress Award. It has served as chief editor for 2 national standardized residency training planning textbooks of the National Health Commission, undertaken more than 10 national, provincial, and municipal scientific research projects, and trained more than 30 postgraduate students.