Not everyone goes through life unscathed in the city of Leeds and we will all pick up things along the way, that’s if we haven’t already been born into a world with problems already. We will certainly have problems arise with our teeth but hopefully not serious ones. However, there is a specialised field in dentistry there to help when severe issues crops up and it goes under the name maxillofacial surgery. If you are born with defects to your mouth, and to the rest of your body from the neck up, this surgery will endeavour to put things right again. It is also used if these parts of the body suffer from severe injury, or the face has been left deformed by diseases such as oral cancer. The idea of maxillofacial surgery is to reconstruct and it does this in two ways. The main thing first is to get your parts working as they used to; for example, damage to the jaw requires it not only to function right, but also ensure that the occlusion remains true as well so that there is limited stress to the jaw joints in the future. Second, aside from ensuring the function side of the surgery, it’s also important, in the case of the mouth and face, that they look okay too.