about us

he Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is one of the leading department within the Faculty of Dentistry,

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia [UKM].

UKM is one of the Research Universities as officially announced by the Malaysian Government in Aug 2007. Our main maxillofacial clinic is located at Level 2, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This clinic is located approximately about 16 kilometre south from the Faculty of Dentistry UKM Jalan Raja Muda Campus located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Minor oral surgery under local anaesthesia including implant surgery for both undergraduate and postgraduate clinics are usually conducted in Jalan Raja Muda Kuala Lumpur Campus.

Our expertise includes management of various oral and maxillofacial conditions, injuries or pathologies such as dentoalveolar surgery, maxillofacial trauma and facial deformity, oncology - jaw lesions and malignancies, cleft surgery (a multidisciplinary appproach), orthognathic surgery and sleep-disordered breathing (multidisciplinary approach)and many other surgical aspects or diseases related to the oral and maxillofacial region.

As a tertiary referral centre, our services are supported with the state of the art medical/surgical equipment. To date our centre is a well-recognized centre in Malaysia in treating complex maxillofacial conditions like osteoradionecrosis, medication-related osteonecrosis of the jawbones, orthognathic surgery and especially computer-assisted or computer-aided oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Among major achievements of the department includes successful surgery known as the ‘osteo-odonto-kerato-prosthesis’ that enable a corneal blind patient to see again. In Malaysia, we also successfully conducted the first computer-generated, fully customised, patient-speciific maxillofacial implant from both PEEK and titanium maxillofacial implant. Working closely with industrial leader such as Brainlab (M) Sdn Bhd, Depuy Synthes, KLS Martin and many others, the very first panfacial fracture including bilateral, severe orbital fracture navigational surgery was also successfully conducted in our centre. Computer-assisted planning and surgical methods are now a routine protocol in all patients who sustained severe midfacial, orbital and/or panfacial fractures, and including jaw reconstruction following tumour resection. To date, more than 100 patients were already benefit from this advanced and individualized treatment protocol. With collaboration from Peking University School of Stomatology we have successfully extended the computer-assisted surgical services for the management of jaw tumours.

In relation to research, our department successfully conducted several major research and actively publish scientific articles especially in oral and maxillofacial trauma, phychological aspect of oral cancer patients, intraoperative imaging for maxillofacial trauma and management of the osteonecrosis of the jawbones.