British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons

BAOMS Annual Scientific Meeting 24-26 June 2020, Southbank Centre London - Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room

Call for Abstracts is now open.

See the latest information in the Events & Courses listing. 

We are aiming to summarise interesting papers from the authors and reviewers to provide a seven minute presentation that you can view on your phone or computer.

Watch the first bite of this project - a literature review of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. 

Watch the second bite of this project - Current thinking in management of the neck including contralateral neck in ipsilateral recurrent or second primary oral SCC

Watch the third bite of this project - based on the paper ‘Analysis of outcomes following revision replacement of the failed temporomandibular joint total joint prosthesis’ 

See the RCSEd website for further details

The next webinar is titled 'Robotic surgery in head and neck, past, present and future' and is scheduled for 5 November 2019 at 8pm GMT. The speaker is Professor Vinidh Paleri. Potential attendees will need to register in advance by visiting the RCSEd website.

Previous webinars have been presented by Professor Rui Fernandes & Mr Jagtar Dhanda.

BAOMS is running workshops for trainees aiming for a career in OMFS and planning to apply for medicine or dentistry as a second degree in the forthcoming year. As UCAS applications have to be completed by early October, these courses will be during September. Check the calendar for the nearest course to you. (Liverpool, London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford other venues being added).

A commemorative parachute drop on the 75th anniversary of D-Day (6 June 1944) is set to raise essential funds for the National Facial, Oral and Oculoplastic Research Centre (NFORC), funded by research charity Saving Faces and partner the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (BAOMS). 

Sponsor Frank Fletcher

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NFORC works with BAOMS in key areas of data collection and audit. NFORC is funded by the charity Saving Faces which collaborates with BAOMS so the two charities work together in a common cause – to improve outcomes for our patients.  See our page to find out more.

Please also see the GIRFT page for the May 2019 update.

This project that is now being rolled out nationally across many specialities started with a pilot review of Orthopaedic services across England. The original report published in late 2012 suggested changes can be made to improve pathways of care, patient experience, and outcomes with significant cost savings. It was followed by a more in depth approach that reported in 2015. The pilot project was led by Prof Tim Briggs who was subsequently appointed as the National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency and now leads the GIRFT Project across all the specialities.

The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery is published by Elsevier.

BAOMS are excited to announce that online access to Oral Oncology as well as to the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, is now a benefit of BAOMS membership.

With a 2015 Impact Factor (IF) of 1.237, nearly half a million downloads and a thousand manuscripts submitted annually BJOMS is the innovative and certain way to communicate your research, educational and topical information to your peers.