Oral surgery relates to a range of treatments that use surgery to treat conditions in the mouth, gums, teeth, or the jawbone. Routine surgical extractions can normally be carried out by general dentists. More complex cases may require the services of a specialist oral surgeon.
Our in-house oral & Maxillofacial surgeon, Dr Ben Beyqi, has over thirty years of experience in oral and implant surgery in both hospital and primary care settings. He completed his specialist training at the Eastman Dental and University College Hospitals in London in 1998 and received additional training at Massachusetts General Hospital in the USA. He was the director of the MSc program in oral & Maxilofacial surgery at Eastman from 1998 to 2002 and worked as the director of the oral surgery training program at Birmingham Dental Hospital 2003 to 2011. Dr Beyqi ran an independent training program in implant surgery at the Tatum Institute in London from 2006 to 2016.