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The clinic covers the whole range of oral and maxillofacial surgery with special emphasis on orthognathic surgery, surgery of the TMJ, surgical treatment of OSA, traumatology, plastic reconstructive surgery, craniofacial malformations, oncology and tumor surgery, oral implantology, and aesthetic surgery.\r\n\r\nThe department offers various special consulting sessions for patients with oral and cranio-maxillofacial diseases including one for patients with rare diseases. Numerous surgical interventions are performed in inpatients and outpatients. The medical staff is committed to providing the highest level of patient care. The team plays a major role in interdepartmental collaborations that include orthodontics, prosthetic dentistry, periodontology and conservative dentistry, neurosurgery, ENT, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, pathology, human genetics, trauma and emergency surgery. In addition to the ITI program, we also offer a scholarship program from the International Bone Research Association (IBRA).\r\n\r\nThe main field of basic research is regenerative medicine in the oral and maxillofacial area with a focus on the vascular biology of oral structures. The department\u2019s VABOS Research Group is an internationally renowned team working in the field of vascular pathology, imaging, cellular and molecular tissue regeneration, and therapeutic angiogenesis. The interdisciplinary team includes physicians, molecular biologists, biologists and physicists. Research is conducted in close cooperation with various institutes within Muenster University as well as with national and international groups working in this area. Other fields of research are bone regeneration, oral implants, oral cancer, diseases of the oral mucosa.\r\n\r\nBesides educating dental and medical students and offering training in oral and maxillofacial Surgery (residency) as well as plastic surgery, the department offers continuing education courses on a regular basis."},{"acf_fc_layout":"highlight_people_3","title":"Scholarship Center Chair","items":[{"image":6254,"position":"Scholarship Center Chair","name":"Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. 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