What We Do
I find it sometimes challenging to explain what it is I do for a career. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are in the middle of the Venn diagram between dental and medical. We are trained as dentists. Then we do a 4 or 6-year residency in the hospital where we get to see the toughest cases involving the head and neck. Oral surgery is one thing. Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a little more. Many of my dental colleagues know we do oral surgery – we take out teeth, we put in dental implants, we bone graft, we take out pathology. But we also do maxillofacial surgery – we fix fractured faces (noses, foreheads, cheeks, eye sockets), we do facelifts, we fix cleft lips and palates, we replace jaw joints like they were hips or knees, we move jaw bones around (orthognathic surgery), and we can remove cancer and then reconstruct the areas we took out. Oral and maxillofacial surgery is quite robust.
But what do we do here at Lyon Dental Implants and Oral Surgery? We're your stop for all of that oral surgery – (it's important too). We do dental extractions (wisdom teeth), we specialize in dental implants (especially complicated ones such as zygomatic and pterygoid implants), we take out benign pathology (lumps, bumps, and bony cysts). I particularly enjoy pathology, but I do send cancer cases to my friends and colleagues who are much better at it than I am. I do orthognathic surgery, minor TMJ and cosmetic procedures (including Botox and fillers), and I take trauma calls at the hospital. We do sedation for those patients for who it is safe – if you need to be asleep for your procedure, we likely can accommodate that.
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Wisdom Teeth
General Extractions
Single Implants
Full Arch Replacement