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How to refer to the Maxillofacial department
As a tertiary care hospital, all children who attend Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) must be referred via primary care, hospital consultants or community paediatricians.
Patients we accept
The Maxillofacial department at Great Ormond Street Hospital accepts patients for the following conditions
- Any child under 3 with a facial/neck or oral anomaly
- Any child under 16 with suspected malignancy of the jaws face or neck
- Any patient under 16 with a facial/neck or oral anomaly that has been assessed in by a Maxillofacial or head and neck surgeon at their local hospital and which they feel would be better managed by a specialist paediatric maxillofacial team.
- Cleft lip and palate patients requiring secondary surgery.
- Craniofacial patients requiring maxillofacial review and those seen in the combined Craniomaxillofacial MDT
- Head and neck vascular lesions at any age up to 16
- Patients under 16 with temporomandibular joint disorders and:
- Underlying medical condition eg RA
- Internal referral through GOSH
- That have been unsuccessfully managed in secondary care and referred on by a Maxillofacial surgeon
- Any child with TMJ ankylosis
- Any patient who requires maxillofacial surgery and whose complex medical history means that any GA work needs to be undertaken at GOSH.
- Facial trauma if accepted and admitted for care under another team at GOSH –eg head injury.
To contact us to make a referral please email us at gos-tr.dentalgosh@nhs.net