The Northwest Center for Oral and Facial Surgery (NWCOFS) is the University of Washington School of Dentistry’s ambulatory OMS Clinical Service. OMS Residents rotate to NWCOFS clinic throughout the six-year residency program. NWCOFS specializes in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a focus on wisdom tooth removal, dental implants, sedation, orthognathic surgery and facial reconstruction, obstructive sleep apnea, pathology and more. Office anesthesia cases and day surgery are performed on-site in the ambulatory clinic. The majority of the OR cases are completed at UWMC -Montlake, with additional dedicated OR time for orthognathic cases at UWMC – Northwest, and Swedish MC, Ballard Campus.
Harborview Medical Center (HMC), one of three primary UW Medicine Hospitals, is the only designated Level I adult and pediatric trauma and verified burn center in the state of Washington and serves as the regional trauma and burn referral center for Alaska, Montana and Idaho and the disaster preparedness and disaster control hospital for Seattle and King County.
OMS Residents rotate to HMC throughout their six-year residency for both Clinical OMS rotations, and also for the majority of the training program’s off-service rotations (General Surgery and Anesthesia). HMC is a comprehensive healthcare facility dedicated to providing specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including the most vulnerable residents of King County.
The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic at Harborview provides comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of problems relating to the mouth, teeth and facial regions. These conditions include impacted teeth, oral pathology, facial trauma, head and neck infections, maxillofacial reconstruction/implants, dentofacial deformities and temporomandibular joint disorders.
The clinic’s general focus is on adult patients, but patients of any age are treated for injuries sustained from trauma or for emergency care. A parent or guardian who can legally give written informed consent must accompany any patient under 18 years of age.
Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) is a 250-bed pediatric medical center serving the Pacific Northwest (including Alaska). Year-five OMS Residents spend four months at SCH with the integrated OMS/Craniofacial plastics service where they operate at senior level. The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery service has recently been expanded, holds regular clinics, seeing and operating on in-patient pediatric patients with a variety of oral and maxillofacial problems. OMS Residents are assigned to both the outpatient clinic and inpatient surgical service. SCH is also the primary rotation for Pediatric Anesthesia and cases.
The VA Puget Sound Medical Center is a 450-bed tertiary care hospital serving a geographic area which includes Washington, Idaho, Alaska and Oregon. The VA’s multi-disciplinary Dental Services includes Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Year-five OMS Residents spend approximately four months with the VA dental services where they manage medically compromised patients with a variety of surgical problems including dentoalveolar, pre-prosthetic, implant, head and neck pathology.