1: Overview
2: Basic knowledge
3: Radiology
4: In the emergency department
5: In the clinic
6: In theatre
7: On the ward
8: Essential skills
9: Oral medicine
10: Emergencies
11: Commonly used drugs and dental materials
12: People you will be working with
13: Syndromes of the head and neck
Luke Cascarini is a consultant Oral and Maxillofacial, Head and
Neck Cancer Surgeon at The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
and also honorary consultant at both The Royal Marsden Hospital and
The West Middlesex University Hospital. His special interests are
the surgical management of mouth cancer, in particular complex
reconstruction. Luke is an associate editor of the British Journal
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, has co-authored a surgical
textbook on
principles of surgery, and has written a number of chapters and
published and presented numerous articles. Clare Schilling studied
medicine in London and did not come across the specialty of OMFS
until
her pre-registration year where she happened to share a ward with
the Maxillofacial team. Fascinated by what she saw them doing, she
secured her first SHO job in Maxillofacial surgery. Claire
thoroughly enjoyed working in OMFS and then went on to complete her
basic surgical training and although she enjoyed all the more
'traditional' surgical specialties she still kept coming back to
OMFS. She decided to take the plunge and went to study dentistry as
a mature student and was delighted to find
several like-minded medics along the way. It seems the 'medicine
first' route is becoming more common every year. Since qualifying
in dentistry she has entered a Specialist Training program for OMFS
and
can honestly say that she hasn't looked back once. It is a longer
training pathway than most but it is definitely worth it. Ben
Gurney trained at Edinburgh Medical School before completing basic
surgical training in the North East of England. It was during his
second year of the BST that he was exposed to Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery whilst working in ITU and looking after head
and neck cancer cases that had undergone major surgery. Ben was
lucky to be appointed as an OMFS SHO at Sunderland
Royal Hospital where he had a wonderful year of training and a
thorough introduction to OMFS. It also opened up a world of oral,
dental, and facial surgery that, as a medical graduate, had
remained a
complete mystery. Having been inspired to pursue a career in OMFS,
Ben completed a second undergraduate degree in dentistry at Kings
College London, and he is now now a specialty OMFS trainee with the
London Deanery. Peter Brennan is a consultant Oral and
Maxillofacial, Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon at Queen Alexandra
Hospital, Portsmouth. He is also honorary Professor of Surgery. He
has been a consultant for nine years and has clinical interests in
the management of head and neck cancer,
salivary gland disease, and microvascular free tissue transfer. In
addition to a busy clinical practice, Peter is committed to
research and education. He is currently the honorary editor of the
British
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and is on the editorial
board of other journals. Peter has recently been elected as the
next chairman of the English College Court of Examiners for the
MRCS examination - a first for a maxillofacial surgeon. He is an
author on nearly 200 peer reviewed papers and supports trainees at
all levels. He teaches worldwide, particularly in India on a
regular basis.
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