The cases that usually get referred
Impacted wisdom teeth, roots that fracture on removal, implant placement where the bone is thin, and the surgical groundwork a full-mouth rehabilitation depends on — these are the things a general practice sends elsewhere.
Smile Line has a consultant maxillofacial surgeon on the team — FCPS, and head of the maxillofacial unit at CDA Hospital — so the referral is down the corridor.
Surgery is planned, not improvised
Every surgical case starts with imaging and a written plan: what is being done, what the alternatives are, what could go wrong, and what the recovery actually looks like.
That includes being told when surgery is not the right answer. A tooth that can be saved is worth saving.
Jaw surgery and orthognathic surgery
Some bite and facial-balance problems come from the position of the jaws rather than the teeth, and no amount of straightening alone will correct them. Orthognathic surgery — corrective jaw surgery — repositions the jaw itself.
It is planned together with orthodontics, usually with braces before and after the operation, so the teeth and the jaws finish in the right place relative to each other. Jaw surgery for other reasons, from trauma to pathology, is assessed in the same way.