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Maxillofacial surgery in Tbilisi
Surgical treatment of the jaw and facial region — a speciality in its own right, and one that takes years.
Stages
How it goes
- Consultation
- Diagnostics and planning
- Operation
- Follow-up
A detailed treatment plan is set at consultation, after examination and diagnostics.
What this covers
Procedures
Extractions
- Tooth extraction
- Simple and surgical extraction, including teeth that are damaged, fractured or beyond treatment.
- Surgical removal of wisdom teeth
- Surgical extraction of impacted, partially impacted and malpositioned wisdom teeth.
- Atypical extraction
- Surgical removal of awkwardly positioned teeth, roots or root fragments.
Pathology
- Apicoectomy
- Surgical removal of the root tip and the chronic inflammatory focus around it, in order to keep the tooth.
- Odontogenic cysts
- Diagnosis and surgical removal of cysts that have developed in the jawbone.
- Removal of benign lesions
- Surgical treatment of benign soft-tissue and bony lesions of the mouth and the maxillofacial region.
- Biopsy
- Taking a small sample of tissue for histological examination.
Implants and bone
- Dental implant placement
- Replacing the root of a missing tooth with a modern dental implant, ready to be restored.
- Immediate implant placement
- Where the case allows, placing the implant at the same visit as the extraction.
- Bone augmentation
- Rebuilding insufficient jawbone volume so that an implant can be placed.
- Block bone graft
- Creating additional bone volume by a dedicated surgical technique where the deficit is substantial.
- Guided bone regeneration (GBR)
- Rebuilding bone using graft material together with a barrier membrane.
- Sinus lifting
- Increasing bone height in the posterior upper jaw so an implant can be placed. Open sinus lifting where the bone deficit is larger; closed, a less invasive method, where the case allows.
Soft tissue and preparation
- Alveoloplasty
- Reshaping the alveolar ridge to improve the result of a denture or other treatment that follows.
- Vestibuloplasty
- Correcting the depth of the oral vestibule and the soft tissue around it, to improve denture fit and function.
- Frenectomy and frenuloplasty
- Surgical correction of the lip or tongue frenum where there is a functional or orthodontic need.
- Closure of oro-antral communication
- Surgical closure of an abnormal opening between the mouth and the maxillary sinus.
- Pre-prosthetic surgery
- Correcting bone and soft tissue so that a removable or fixed restoration fits and functions as well as it can.
Trauma and infection
- Abscess and purulent infection
- Opening, cleaning and draining purulent infection in the maxillofacial region.
- Surgical management of wounds
- Cleaning and dressing soft-tissue injuries, and suturing them where needed.
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Diagnosis and surgical management of injuries to the jaw and face.
- Jaw fractures
- Diagnosis, stabilisation and surgical treatment of upper and lower jaw fractures, as indicated.
Implant complications
- Implant removal (explantation)
- Surgical removal of an implant that is damaged, has not integrated, or must come out for another reason.
- Peri-implant surgery
- Surgical treatment of bone and soft-tissue problems around an implant.
Consultation
- Consultation and surgical planning
- Clinical assessment, review of the necessary radiographs, and an individual surgical plan.
FAQ
Common questions
What does maxillofacial surgery cover?
Surgical treatment of the jaw and facial region. It is a separate speciality within dentistry.
Who performs the operation?
Dr Nikoloz Lortkipanidze — maxillofacial surgeon, current member of the world and European maxillofacial surgery associations.
Who performs it
Dr Nikoloz Lortkipanidze
Maxillofacial surgeon, implantologist
- Experience26 years of clinical practice
- SpecialityMaxillofacial surgeon and implantologist
- MembershipCurrent member of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS) and the European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS)
- PracticeMany highly complex operations performed successfully
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