About the Department

Services provided by the department

We provide a comprehensive range of services for disease of the mouth, teeth, jaws together with salivary gland problems and oral and facial cancer including:

• General Oral Surgery, day case surgery at St. Peter’s and Ashford
• Inpatient surgery at St. Peter’s (tertiary units at Royal Surrey and St Georges)
• Full Maxillofacial out-patient services at St. Peter’s and Ashford
• Orthodontic Treatment for complex cases IOTN 4 and 5 and multidisciplinary cases
• Orthognathic Clinics for treatment of facial deformity
• Joint DentoAlveolar Clinics
• Joint Day Case Gold Chain Lists with Maxillofacial Surgery
• Teaching Department with 3 SpRs and 1 FTTA senior trainee

Our Clinical Team: Orthodontics

The consulting team in the department are:

	Karen CLARKE Consultant Orthodontist Orthognathic treatment (jaw surgery) Dentoalveolar treatment Adult orthodontics
	Nick HEMMINGS Consultant Orthodontist
	Claire HEPWORTH Consultant Orthodontist (Specialty Lead) Specialty Lead Max-Fac Surgery and Orthodontics Complex orthodontics Orthognathic surgery
	Dina SLATER Consultant Orthodontist Orthognathic surgery Functional appliances Multidisciplinary orthodontic treatment

Our Clinical Team: Maxillofacial Surgery

The consulting team in the department are:

	Mr Malcolm BAILEY GMC: 2300898 Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Salivary gland disease Orofacial cancer Facial trauma
	Jacob D'SOUZA GMC: 6045285 Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon
	Jarrad HAQ Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Facial aesthetics Trauma Oral / jaw deformity Craniofacial / skull base surgery Complex congenital conditions Facial reconstruction
	Ashraf MESSIHA Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon
	Helen WITHEROW GMC: 4007867 Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Skin cancers Trauma and orthognathic procedures Head and neck deformity

Contact Details

• Orthodontics: 01784 884650
• Oral / Maxillofacial: 01784 884805, 01784 884131, 01784 884550, 01784 884632

Location

The Oral clinic and Orthodontics unit are on the first floor of the Outpatients block at Ashford.

The Outpatients clinics are on Level 3 of the departmental block at St. Peter’s Hospital.