The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care granted the Maxillofacial Surgery Center for Excellence accreditation. Here are five key notes:
1. The surgery center treats broken jaws, broken noses and more complicated facial injuries from gun shots or car accidents.
2. Kayvon Haghighi, DDS, MD, FACS, owns the surgery center. He has training and experience in facial reconstruction and completed his training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
3. Procedures at the surgery center include cleft and craniofacial surgery, sleep apnea treatment and facial trauma.
4. The surgery center includes computed tomography to generate three-dimensional images for the diagnosis, planning and treatment of surgery. The scanner is the Planmeca Promax 3D system.
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