Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in this Special Issue of JCM “Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Recent Advances and Future Directions”.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery has often been underrepresented in global healthcare, but plays a critical role in reducing global health inequalities caused by the impact of oral and craniofacial diseases.

Improved or new therapy concepts are being developed worldwide that integrate the most modern technologies. Digitalization has also found its way into medicine and dentistry as part of therapeutic measures and offers a variety of new opportunities to improve the quality of diagnostics and therapy.

Especially in surgery and orthodontics, new possibilities are opening up for the better planning and implementation of combination therapy for dental and skeletal deviations and craniofacial anomalies. From 3D surgery simulation to the 3D printing of templates, splints or osteosynthetic materials, new processes and the use of artificial intelligence offer impressive possibilities. With individually manufactured scaffolds or appliances, therapies can now be planned individually for each patient.

The combination of tried-and-tested techniques in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery and new innovations in interdisciplinary therapy will be the topic of this Special Issue. Both theoretical approaches and practical experiences will be exchanged and presented here. Manuscripts on the presentation of clinical applications, use of new therapeutic methods and treatment of complex cases are also very welcome.

We look forward to receiving your submissions to this Special Issue.

Dr. Tomasz Gredes
Dr. Ute Ulrike Botzenhart
Guest Editors

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• orthodontics
• dentofacial orthopedics
• bone regeneration
• oral health
• dentistry
• digital technologies
• virtual care