Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a surgical specialty focusing on reconstructive surgery of the face, facial trauma surgery, the mouth, head and neck, and jaws, as well as facial plastic surgery including cleft lip and cleft palate surgery.
A number of professional degrees in dentistry are offered by dental schools in various countries around the world.
King Edward Medical University is a public medical university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established as Lahore Medical School during the British Raj in 1860 and is named after King Edward VII.
Sheikh Zayed Medical College, established in March 2003, is a public medical college located in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named in honor of Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The Medical College is affiliated with Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan which has 900 beds and is the biggest hospital of Rahim Yar Khan District.
Dentistry throughout the world is practiced differently, and training in dentistry varies as well.
Faisal Masud was a renowned Pakistani endocrinologist.
The University of Health Sciences, Lahore, commonly referred to as UHS Lahore, is a graduate, affiliating public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO) is a diagnosis whereby a putative jawbone cavitation causes chronic facial neuralgia; this is different from osteonecrosis of the jaw. In NICO the pain is said to result from the degenerating nerve ("neuralagia"). The condition is probably rare, if it does exist.
Nishtar Institute of Dentistry is a dental school and a tertiary care dental and Oral-Maxillofacial trauma/diseases treatment facility located in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College is a government college of medicine and dentistry located in New Muslim Town, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Nishtar Medical University is a public medical university located in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest medical institutions established after the creation of Pakistan. It offers degree programs in medicine, dentistry, allied health sciences and nursing. It is named after Sardar Abdur Rub Nishtar, Pakistan movement leader, and then Governor of Punjab, Pakistan.
Fatima Memorial System is a health care complex and educational organization based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded by Begum Saida Waheed.
Multan Medical and Dental College abbreviated as MMDC, established in 2008, is a private college of medical and dental school, in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
Sargodha Medical College is a public sector medical college located in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif Medical College is a medical school located in Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
The Combined Military Hospital Lahore is a tertiary care teaching hospital operated by the Pakistan Army. Its primary function is to provide specialized medical treatment to Armed forces personnel, their dependents, as well as the general public. It is headed by a Major General from the Army Medical Corps of the Pakistan Army.
Farid Ahmad Khan is a Pakistani physician and plastic surgeon. He served as chairman, dean and principal at Sheikh Zayed Medical Institute Lahore from 2015 to 2018. He is a former Head of Plastic Surgery department at Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore. He is currently a Member Higher Educucation Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. He is also a former registrar at King Edward Medical University. Khan is the founding president of the Pakistan Burn Association, from 2016 to 2018. He established the largest burn center in Punjab for poor patients in Mayo Hospital Lahore. He is also the first Pakistani surgeon to start Microvascular free flap Surgery, at Mayo hospital in 2000. During his tenure as Chairman of Shaikh Zayed hospital, Shaikh Zayed Hospital was the only public sector hospital in the province which had successfully completed more than 100 liver transplants and more than 800 kidney transplants.
