Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a specialist unit of SA Dental, Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) and the University of Adelaide.

We provide a wide range of surgical treatments for conditions of the maxillofacial region, as well as outpatient and inpatient services.

Procedures with local anaesthetic are undertaken at the Adelaide Dental Hospital, with major procedures occurring at the RAH.

These include: 

• tumour resection and neck dissection for head and neck cancer patients
• removal of cysts and bony growths
• orthognathic surgery for the upper or lower jaw to assist in jaw realignment, proper function and for obstructive sleep apnoea (and other sleep problems)
• biopsies of suspected pathology
• bone grafts, plates and implants to restore loss of bone structure
• temporomandibular joint operations
• tooth extractions, including wisdom teeth
• exposures of submerged teeth
• dentoalveolar surgery for medically compromised patients
• conservative dental treatment for special needs patients (by special needs dentists).

We do not provide general dental services. Patients wishing to access public dental care must be the holder of a South Australia Centrelink Health care card or Pensioner concession card. 

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery is only able to accept referrals for dental care for surgical procedures, such as dental extractions and management of impacted third molars, from an SA Dental clinic. 

Adelaide Dental Hospital
Level 12, University of Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building
Corner North Terrace and George Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Consultants

• Professor Paul Sambrook – Head of Unit
• Dr James Badlani
• Dr Aaron Thomas
• Dr Andrew Cheng
• Dr Sanjaya Gamage.

You need a referral from a specialist, medical or dental practitioner to access this service.

Once your referral has been received it will be triaged according to clinical urgency.

If your referral is accepted, you will receive a letter, phone call or text message confirming your appointment time, date and location once your name reaches the top of the waiting list.

If the referral is declined, your referring medical practitioner or dental practitioner will be notified.

We accept GP, specialist and dentist referrals to this service. 

Email and fax referrals are preferred.

To ensure timely triage, include all demographic and clinical details. 

The service triages referrals according to clinical urgency. 

Referrals are to be addressed to:

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Adelaide Dental Hospital