Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Professor and Chair: Robert A. Ord, DDS, MD, MS
The department provides instruction in the second, third and fourth years of the predoctoral program. The third year dental students rotate for one week at the University of Maryland Medical Center, participating in the OR and the outpatient clinic. A fourth year clerkship elective in Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery provides students an opportunity to perform more advanced dentoalveolar surgery and participate more fully in surgical care at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The postgraduate program in oral-maxillofacial surgery includes training at the University of Maryland Medical System and University of Maryland School of Dentistry. Research is conducted in chemoprevention of oral carcinoma and pain management techniques. The department is also involved in evaluation of analgesics for postsurgical pain control and tumor immunology.