Dental Medicine
Overview
We provide comprehensive, secondary and tertiary inpatient and outpatient dental services. Children up to age 17 with a variety of medical and developmental problems are seen by our multi-disciplinary team.
Our expertise and research in emergency management of children’s dental and jaw injuries are well known. We have significant expertise in the management of cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies.
Diagnoses or Conditions Treated
- Oral lesions and tumors
- Craniofacial deformities, including cleft palate
- Dental care for children requiring general anesthesia
- Dental decay in medically complex and developmentally delayed children
- Dental emergencies
- Jaw and intraoral tumors and lesions
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery and reconstruction
- Orthodontic and facial orthopedic care for children with cleft palate and facial deformities
- Severe jaw growth disturbances
- Speech prosthetics
Physician Leadership
- Joel H Berg, DDS, MS, Director (Interim)
- Barbara L. Sheller, DDS, MSD, Chief, Education and Resident Training
- Christopher Delecki, DDS, Chief, Odessa Brown Dental Clinic
- Mark A. Egbert, DDS, Chief, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Terry M. Thomas, DDS, Chief, Periodontics
- James A. Howard, DDS, Chief Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction