School of Dentistry
Chair of Oral Surgery and Dental Emergency Care
Surgical procedures in the oral and maxillofacial region
This Chair of Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine focuses its teaching and research on the full spectrum of dental surgery, oral pathology and oral medicine.
The treatment team in the ‘Chair of Oral Surgery and Dental Emergency Care’ comprises qualified dental specialists in oral surgery, as well as dentists who are undertaking further training in oral surgery as academic staff. In addition to experienced dental assistants, dental students undertaking surgical placements also assist with treatments.
We attach the utmost importance to providing comprehensive advice and the best possible oral medicine and oral surgery care for our patients. We achieve this by applying current standards based on scientific evidence and guidelines.
Chair holder
Prof. Dr.
Joachim Jackowski
Chair holder
Faculty of Health (School of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine) | Chair of Dental Surgery and Dental Emergency Care
Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 44
58455 Witten
Room number: 12
Information for patients
The range of treatments includes:
- Emergency dental treatment
- Dental surgery
- Traumatology of the teeth and alveolar process
- Pre-prosthetic surgery
- Implantology and augmentation procedures
- Specialist radiological diagnostics
- Diagnosis and treatment of oral mucosal diseases
- Oral rehabilitation of patients following tumour surgery in the oral, maxillofacial and facial regions
- Treatment of high-risk patients
- Treatment of patients with rare conditions
- Treatment under sedation or general anaesthesia in collaboration with specialists in anaesthesia
- Dental treatment for sleep-related breathing disorders
Research
The Chair’s current research topics are:
- Implant surgery and prosthetic treatment for patients with systemic diseases
- Oral surgery and oral medicine care for patients with rare diseases
- Establishment of a nationwide register to record orofacial manifestations of rare diseases (ROMSE)
- Endoscopically-assisted dental surgery and implantology
Publications
All publications by the Chair of Oral Surgery and Dental Emergency Care at UW/H are listed in the university bibliography.
Teaching
Contents
In our courses, students explore the following subject-specific topics from both a theoretical and practical perspective:
- Dental Surgery
- Oral medicine and oral pathology
- Local anaesthesia in the context of emergency medicine
- Hygiene
Dental surgery
- General surgical principles and patient information
- Medical history, findings, clinical history, surgical report
- High-risk patients in dental surgery
- Inflammation and infections in the oral, maxillofacial and facial regions
- Tooth extraction and surgical tooth removal
- Wisdom tooth surgery
- Surgical tooth preservation
- Wound healing and impaired wound healing
- Haemorrhagic diatheses
- Antibiotic therapy and analgesia in dental surgery
- Cysts in the maxillofacial region
- Diseases, diagnosis and treatment of the maxillary sinus from a dental surgical perspective
- Traumatology of the teeth and alveolar process
- Outpatient pre-prosthetic surgery
- Dental Implantology
- Augmentation techniques in dental implantology
- Augmentation materials in dental implantology
- Treatment of peri-implant changes
- Vesicular and bullous immune-mediated dermatoses
- Benign tumours of the oral mucosa
- Viral and bacterial diseases of the oral mucosa
- Lip eczema, eczema-like cheilitis, macrocheilia, cheilitis glandularis, glossopathies, macroglossia
Oral medicine
- Definition of Oral Medicine
- Detection of Oral Risk Lesions
- Precursor lesions, pre-malignant conditions
- Diagnosis and treatment of oral risk lesions
- Leukoplakia
- Erythroplakia
- Oral lichen planus
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Oral mucosal changes caused by pharmacotherapy
- Oral mucosal changes in children
- Oral mucosal changes associated with systemic diseases
The team at the Chair of Oral Surgery and Dental Emergency Care
Peter Dirsch
Senior physician
Faculty of Health (School of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine) | Department of Dental Surgery and Outpatient Clinic
Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 45
58455 WittenRoom number: EG