Category: Facial Trauma

How to Tell If Your Facial Trauma Warrants Dental Correction

Facial trauma includes any damage to your face’s soft or hard tissue. In addition to being painful, trauma to your face can cause emotional distress, especially if it has altered the normal appearance of your face. At COOMSA, we understand that facial trauma can affect your smile and quality of life. Therefore, we are determined… Continue reading How to Tell If Your Facial Trauma Warrants Dental Correction

3 Procedures Used to Treat & Correct Facial Trauma

Facial trauma can occur during falls, accidents, injuries, or violence. The effects of this trauma can be both physical and emotional. Dr. Miller at Central Oklahoma Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates offers several facial trauma procedures to help patients regain their smiles and their quality of life after experiencing facial trauma. If any of your… Continue reading 3 Procedures Used to Treat & Correct Facial Trauma

3 Tips for Getting Treatment After Facial Trauma

Facial trauma is a common result of car accidents, sports injuries, falls, and violence. It includes soft tissue, dental, and bone injuries. Damage can range from a split lip to a smashed jaw and missing teeth. There is also the danger of permanent nerve damage.  Since many injuries can cause disfigurement and impairment, immediate treatment… Continue reading 3 Tips for Getting Treatment After Facial Trauma

4 Types of Facial Traumas That Can Be Treated with Dental Procedures

Facial trauma is often very complicated and can require an oral surgeon. Maxillofacial trauma refers to bone, dental, and soft tissue injuries. Facial trauma can happen in many different ways, but the most common causes are road accidents, physical assaults, sports-related injuries, falls, and even gunshot wounds. We’re going to look at the way 4… Continue reading 4 Types of Facial Traumas That Can Be Treated with Dental Procedures

Why You Need An Experienced Oral Surgeon to Treat Your Maxillofacial Trauma

Maxillofacial trauma is devastating, both physically and emotionally. Once the injuries you’ve sustained are stabilized, finding a reputable and skilled oral surgeon to perform the needed corrective and restorative surgeries is essential for having the best outcome possible. What is maxillofacial trauma? “Maxillofacial trauma” is used to describe injuries to the face, mouth, and jaw.… Continue reading Why You Need An Experienced Oral Surgeon to Treat Your Maxillofacial Trauma

4 Reasons To Wear A Mouthguard While Playing Sports

Contact sports present significant risks to your oral health if you don’t take good care of your smile while engaging in them. Patients who don’t protect their smiles while playing sports can face significant consequences of facial trauma, which may warrant treatment by an oral surgeon. The most effective way to prevent the effects of… Continue reading 4 Reasons To Wear A Mouthguard While Playing Sports

Treatments For Facial Trauma

Facial trauma caused by a fall, accident, sports injury or other insult to the jaw and surrounding structures, generally will require some degree of intervention by an oral surgeon. Those procedures may repair damage to the teeth, bones or soft oral tissues or any combination of the three. The type of facial trauma sustained will… Continue reading Treatments For Facial Trauma

Types Of Facial Injuries Your Oral Surgeon Can Correct

Facial injuries have the potential to compromise the appearance and function of your smile if you don’t take action to address them in a timely manner. Often this involves working with an oral surgeon, who has the education and expertise needed to achieve the desired treatment outcomes. The varying types of facial trauma result in… Continue reading Types Of Facial Injuries Your Oral Surgeon Can Correct

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