Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Tongji University is a key discipline of the hospital, undertaking the medical, teaching, and research tasks of oral and maxillofacial surgery. The department has a number of outstanding professionals with extensive clinical experience and strong technical capabilities.

The outpatient clinic offers specialized treatment services in orthognathic surgery, dentoalveolar surgery, head and neck tumors, oral and maxillofacial plastic surgery, maxillofacial trauma, salivary gland diseases, and sequential treatment of cleft lip and palate. The department has developed distinctive expertise in orthognathic surgery, tooth extraction under ECG monitoring, painless tooth extraction, minimally invasive tooth extraction, comprehensive sequential treatment of maxillofacial tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, and reconstructive correction of cleft lip and palate deformities. It also collaborates with the Department of Orthodontics to provide combined orthodontic–orthognathic treatment.

The ward mainly admits patients with benign and malignant oral and maxillofacial tumors, dentofacial deformities, inflammation, maxillofacial trauma, salivary gland diseases, congenital or acquired deformities, trigeminal neuralgia, and other conditions, and performs various complex tumor, reconstructive, and orthognathic surgeries. The department has developed distinctive expertise in orthognathic surgery for dentofacial deformities, comprehensive treatment of malignant tumors, immediate repair with various tissue flaps and organ reconstruction after malignant tumor resection, open reduction and rigid internal fixation of complex maxillary and mandibular fractures, cosmetic incisions for parotid surgery, sequential treatment of cleft lip and palate, surgical and pharmacological treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, fenestration treatment of giant jaw cysts, and minimally invasive extraction of complex impacted wisdom teeth.

The department undertakes teaching for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students, as well as instruction for residents undergoing standardized training and physicians undertaking further training. It has successively obtained multiple projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and multiple provincial- and ministerial-level research projects. It is a deputy-chairperson institution of the Head and Neck Tumor Professional Committee of the Shanghai Stomatological Association, a council-member institution of the Shanghai Stomatological Association, a deputy-chairperson institution of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Professional Committee, and a deputy-chairperson institution of the Special Committee on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of the Shanghai Stomatological Association.

Location: Outpatient clinic: west side of the 3rd floor, Building 1; Inpatient ward: 3rd floor, Building 2

Department contact numbers: 021-66313735 (outpatient clinic); 021-66315175 (inpatient ward)

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