A surgical speciality for treatment of pathologies affecting the skull, face and mouth, cranio-maxillofacial surgery consists of the following types of procedure: orthognathic surgery, reconstructive surgery and aesthetic surgery.
Maxillofacial surgery mostly covers orthognathic surgery (jaw size and position), stomatology (tumours and cysts, implantology, etc.) craniofacial malformations and facial traumatology in both adults and children.