Maxillofacial Laboratory

The Maxillofacial Laboratory is licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to manufacture custom-made medical devices.

Maxillofacial prosthetists and technologists design and construct facial and body prostheses, as well as custom-made surgical appliances.

These may be from prescription or direct referrals from consultants and include:

• facial prostheses
• contour defect prostheses
• breast and nipple prostheses
  
• digital prostheses
  
• keloid splints
  
• obturators
  
• trauma and surgical splints.
  

Dental technicians construct fixed and removable intra-oral prostheses, orthodontics appliances and intra-oral splints from prescription, which may include:

• fixed and removable dentures
  
• crowns and bridges
  
• fixed and removable orthodontics appliances
  
• intra-oral splints.
  

Our dental technicians are registered with the General Dental Council as required by law.

Who uses the laboratory?

The Maxillofacial Laboratory provides a technical service to a variety of departments, including:

• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Restorative Dentistry
  
• Orthodontics
  
• Plastic Surgery
  
• ENT.
  

We also provide a service for the dental access centres as well as receiving referrals from consultants and GPs outside the Oxford University Hospitals.

Laboratory staff

• Rob Lawson: Senior Dental Technician / Laboratory Manager
  
• Darren Grew: Specialist Dental Technologist
  
• Javad Jahantigh: Dental Technician

Find us and contact us

• Department of Oral Surgery
  Level 2, John Radcliffe Hospital

Patients should present themselves to the reception desk there.

• Tel: 01865 221399
• How to find the John Radcliffe Hospital