Neck, Face and Head Cosmetic Surgery Residency Training and its Practice in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Updating and Evolving Perspectives

The evolution of clinical education in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) and current diverse patients’ demands for facial aesthetics, as a result of recent changes in technology, combined with today’s engineering revolution for patient specific implants or virtual-surgical planning, along with new-sprung techniques for every day new set of insertable biomaterials and associated to higher dental/medical education environment requirements, set new horizons where a trending practice model in OMFS needs to be created and known as Neck, Face and Head Cosmetic Surgery or simply, Facial Cosmetics. These evolving perspectives should be incorporated into OMFS terminology, residency education programs and practice licensure to differ aesthetic procedures performed by Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons (OMFs) from those practiced in Orofacial Harmonization and Plastic Surgery specialties.