About us

– The department trains students in educational and professional programs Dentistry, and studies the educational components: normative – Operative dentistry and maxillofacial surgery, and elective courses: Surgical preparation of the oral cavity for prosthetics, Plastic and reconstructive surgery and Modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of TMJ diseases In the preparation of students at the department are widely used modern teaching methods case–method, modeling of clinical situations, work on dental phantoms that allows students to master practical skills.
– Practical training of students takes place on clinical bases
– KNP CHORUS “Regional Clinical Hospital” 4th floor left wing of the department “Head–neck”
– University Dental Center, 6th floor
– Educational and scientific medical complex “University Clinic” of Kharkiv National Medical University
– Elective courses are taught at the department: “Surgical preparation of the oral cavity for prosthetics”, “Plastic and reconstructive surgery”, “Modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of TMJ diseases”
– The department has created 4 textbooks, 6 guidelines, etc.
Training of scientific personnel according to the educational–scientific program of training of doctors of philosophy and postgraduate training of specialists is carried out.

– research interests of the department: features of the course and treatment of traumatic injuries and inflammatory processes at different ages; problems of adaptation, the possibility of influencing the nature and course of the purulent wound by medical and physiotherapeutic methods.
– research topics, research department: “Optimization of methods of diagnosis and treatment of major dental diseases” state registration number 0119U002899.
The department trains PhDs, doctors of sciences in Operative Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery.
– During the existence of the department more than 650 works have been published and a large number of reports have been prepared at forums of various levels, including international ones; received 20 copyright certificates and patents; 3 doctoral dissertations and 16 candidate dissertations were defended, 1 PhD dissertation was completed. Due to the practical significance of scientific research, the results of treatment of patients with purulent–inflammatory diseases of the maxillofacial area have been significantly improved, new methods of osteosynthesis have been mastered.

The department has introduced effective modern methods of treatment of diseases of the maxillofacial area, developed by the staff of the department:
• Use of antihomotoxic drugs Lifomyosot and Traumel–C,
• Program for predicting the course of phlegmon,
• Laserophoresis, in the treatment of phlegmon,
• Lymphotropic administration of drugs in inflammatory processes of the lymphatic nodes,
• The use of L–lysine–excinate and myogymnastics in inflammatory contractures,
• The use of gel “Kamident–Health” in the treatment of alveolitis
• The use of modern methods of stress prevention at the dental office,
• Method of analgesia during surgery in patients with toxic osteomyelitis,
• Prediction of the course and complications of odontogenic sinusitis.
Employees of the department take part in conferences and congresses of various levels, in particular in Warsaw, Lublin (Poland), Kyiv, Poltava, Lviv, Odesa, Ivano-Frankivsk and others.

The medical work of the department is carried out on clinical bases. – KNP CHORUS “Regional Clinical Hospital” 4th floor left wing of the department “Head–neck”
– University Dental Center, 6th floor
– Educational and scientific medical complex “University Clinic” of Kharkiv National Medical University

Brief description of clinical bases, logistics
All bases of the department have modern medical and diagnostic equipment and tools for diagnosis and treatment of surgical dental pathology, namely inflammatory processes, injuries, tumors of the maxillofacial area.
Employees of the department constantly participate in providing highly qualified surgical dental care to the population of Kharkiv and Kharkiv region.
All employees of the department are members of the Association of Dentists of Ukraine.

Interuniversity cooperation has been organized between specialized departments of Poltava State Medical University, O.O. Bogomolets Kyiv National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Vinnytsia National Medical University named after M.I. Pyrohova on the main topic of the department “Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of organs and tissues of the maxillofacial area”.

The department conducts cycles of thematic improvement and specialization in the specialty “Surgical Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery” and activities of the CPD of doctors:

• Thematic improvement for doctors with a specialty in dental surgeon and dentist “Modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of abscesses and phlegmon of the maxillofacial area” (2 weeks – 78 hours). Date of the course: 12.01.2024 – 26.01.2024.
• Thematic advanced training for doctors with a specialty in dental surgery and dentistry “Qualified tooth extraction: typical, atypical. Features of the removal of third molars on the upper and lower jaw” (2 weeks – 78 hours). Date of the course: 12.03.2024 – 26.03.2024.
• Specialization cycle in the specialty “Surgical Dentistry” (6 months – 786 hours). Date of the course: 02.05.2024 – 27.06.2024 and 02.09.2024 – 30.12.2024.
• Internship cycle in the specialty “Surgical Dentistry” (1 month – 156 hours). Date of the course: 03.06.2024 – 27.06.2024.
• Thematic improvement for doctors in the specialty of dental surgeon and dentist “Modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of benign soft tissue tumors of the maxillofacial area” (2 weeks – 78 hours). Date of the course: 04.10.2024 – 18.10.2024.