Susie Lin

June 9, 2021

Nerve repair advances lead to improved restoration of facial sensation

VUMC’s oral and maxillofacial surgeons care for patients with facial trauma and perform orthognathic surgery, which corrects jaw irregularities and realigns the jaws and bite. These specialists also perform benign tumor and cyst resection and reconstructive surgery, so they are very familiar with measures to preserve and, in some cases, repair the trigeminal nerve.

By Jill Clendening
Members of the Vanderbilt Oral Health team include (front row, from left) Julie Rezk, DMD, Margaret Maclin, DMD, (back row, from left) Kelly Norris, DMD, Tyler Ames, DMD, and Samuel McKenna, MD, DDS. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons not pictured include Susie Lin, DDS, MD, Ashish Sharma, BDS, MSD, and Luis Vega, DDS.
April 15, 2021

Vanderbilt Oral Health consolidates, expands services in new location

With the opening of Vanderbilt Oral Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s dental and oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) services are now together in one convenient location on Belcourt Avenue in Nashville, just across from the Belcourt Theatre.

By Jill Clendening