Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

A mission to bring dental care to South America is re-routed Louisiana. WGNO's Vanessa Bolano says dentists and oral surgeons are restoring lives one tooth at a time. Suction devices and drills, two sounds that make most of us cringe, but not here, not...

A healing technique that has been used for many years in hospitals but gained widespread attention in the field of sports medicine is now making waves among oral surgeons and their patients. In Central Virginia, the technique is being used in at least one...

The Aberdeen Central High School PTA would like to thank the following businesses for their generous support of the 2012 post-prom party on April 21: Aberdeen Dental Associates; Aberdeen Dermatology Associates LLP; Aberdeen Federal Credit Union;...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Jordan Valley Community Health Center will receive $5 million in funds for capital development from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The grant will be used for facility construction to be complete in the fall...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Jordan Valley Community Health Center will receive $5 million in funds for capital development from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(HHS).  The grant will be used for facility construction to be complete in the fall...

Los Angeles resident Rosa Ceron and her family have been struggling to make ends meet since she lost her job and her husband suffered a heart attack. Many necessities, including regular doctor and dentist visits, were put on the back burner because,...

Since Friday, over 3,200 uninsured people have come to CalExpo to get free health care. The group Remote Area Medical helped organize the four day free clinic, which featured health checks, dentistry and vision. To see all of the patients, 600...

When 17-year-old Jenny Olenick went in to have her wisdom teeth removed, her parents weren't worried. After all, wisdom tooth extraction is so common these days that it's almost become a rite of passage for teens. "She was supposed to be out of there...

It's common knowledge that HPV — or human papillomavirus — is linked with cervical cancer, thanks to the controversy over the vaccine. But far fewer people know that this same sexually transmitted viral strain is connected to oral cancers,...

A smile revealing rows of healthy white teeth spreads across 8-year-old Maria McCarthy's face. Confident and poised, the Skokie girl smiles easily. But five years ago, when she arrived as a foster child at the home of Michael and Ana McCarthy, her baby...

La Cañada Flintridge resident Armond Kotikian, DDS, MD, is used to plying his trade as an oral maxillofacial surgeon in the well-equipped surgical theaters of Glendale Adventist and Glendale Memorial hospitals. But he got a lesson in improvisation while...

IRVINE — Tina Williams, 68, moved here in 1970, when the mailing address was still Santa Ana. "It was so attractive with the agriculture that we had all around," Williams said of moving into a new house in a largely undeveloped suburb. "There was...