Classic Papers and Pioneers in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery

Shahid Aziz is a Professor of Otolaryngology at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Division Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, and Clinical Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Rutgers University. Heis a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also a Visiting Professor of Surgery, Update Dental College -East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, is one of only 8 American trained OMS to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and one of only two OMS who are members of the Society of University Surgeons.  He is a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Rutgers College. Shahid received his dental degree from Harvard University School of Dental Medicine and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his general surgery and oral/maxillofacial surgery training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center. He has authored or co-authored over 60 peer reviewed journal articles and 25 book chapters. Shahid's clinical area of expertise includes facial trauma,reconstruction, and orthognathic surgery. He currently serves as past President of the New Jersey Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and Chairman of the Section of Dentistry and Oral Health of the New York Academy of Medicine. Shahid  is the co-founder and President of the New Jersey USA  based non-profit Smile Bangladesh. A 1st generation Bangladeshi-American, Shahid has been leading a small team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses to Bangladesh since 2006. To date, he has led 30 surgical missions to Bangladesh and provided free surgery to about 2000 children and adults with cleft lip and palate deformities. In 2006 Dr Aziz received the prestigious Faculty Educator Award from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS). Dr Aziz is also the 2017 recipient of AAOMS Humanitarian Award for his charitable work in Bangladesh and in global surgery. 

Dr. Michael Turner is the Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital and an Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also the residency director of the Mount Sinai/Jacobi/Einstein College of Medicine Residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.  Dr. Turner received his dental degree from the University of Maryland, followed by a preliminary certificate of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  He obtained his MD from the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, after which he completed residency training at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He completed a NIH funded Master of Science in clinical research and translational medicine from the New York University School of Medicine. A diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. Turner is an expert in maxillofacial reconstructive surgery and orthognathic surgery and is considered an international expert on minimally invasive salivary gland surgery. He has authored and co-authored 33 peer reviewed journal articles and 14 book chapters.  He is on the board of directors as well as the Secretary of the New York State Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is the Vice-Chair of the Section of Dentistry and Oral Health of the New York Academy of Medicine.  He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the Journal of Dental Education and the Journal of Craniofacial Trauma.

1.Introduction and brief history of oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty.- 2.Case of Elongation of the Under Jaw and Distortion of the Face and Neck. The American Journal of Dental Science. Vol 9, No 2. January 1849.Dr Simon Hullihen.- 3.DR JAMES EDMUND GARRETSON MD,DDS Surgical Education. Dental Cosmos. Vol 18, pp 186-188. November 1866.- 4.e Profession and Our Dental Colleges. The American Journal of Dental Science. Vol 29, No 8. December 1895 Dr. Truman Brophy. - 5.The Status of the Dental Profession.- 6.The relation of oral surgery to dental practice.  The Dental cosmos; a monthly record of dental science. [Vol. 71] / 1929, Volume: 71, Issue: 12, December, 1929, pp. 1165-117.- 7.Report of a Case of Double Resection for the Correction of Protrusion of the Mandible. [Volume 48, Issue 8, August, 1906, pp. 817-820] Vilray Blair, Dental Cosmos.- 8.ARTHROPLASTY FOR INTRA-ARTICULAR BONY AND FIBROUS ANKYLOSIS OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ARTICULATION - REPORT OF NINE CASES. Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol 62, no 23, pp 1883-1794. Dr John B Murphy.- 9.A New Principle in the Treatment of Congenital Cleft Palate and Its Mechanical Counterpart. British Medical Journal. Vol 1 No 3140, pp 335-338. March 5 1921. Dr Harold Gillies, Dr Kelsey Fry.- 10.The Evolution of Oral Surgery. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 44, p139 - 144, 1950.  Dr Kelsey Fry.- 11.Remembrance of Things Past, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Vol 35, No 1, pp 5-13. Dr Varaztad Kazanjian.- 12.The Queens Hospital, Sidcup. British Journal of Plastic Surgery., 6, pp 247-249. 1953.- 13.Emergency Treatment of War Injuries of the Face and Jaws. Annals of Surgery. Volume 113, No 6. June 1941.- 14.Traumatic Mandibular Condyle Fracture Dislocations. American Journal of Surgery. December 1960.- 15.New Methods for the Immobilization of the mandible. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathology, 1948 No 1, pp 98-106 Dr Kurt Thoma. -16.Three Dimensional Approach to Analysis and Treatment of Hemifacial Microsomia. Leonard Kaban et al. Cleft Palate Journal Vol 18, no 2 April 1981.- 17.The combined oral surgery-MD program: the Harvard plan. Guralnick WC. JOral Surg 1973: 13(4):271-276.- 18.Orthognathic Surgery and a Tale of How Three Procedures Came to Be: A Letter to the Next Generation of Surgeons. Clinics in Plastic Surgery. Vol 34, pp 331-355 2007. Dr Hugo Obwegeser.- 19.LeFort 1 osteotomy for correction of maxillary deformities. Journal of Oral Surgery. Vol 33, pp 412- 436. Dr William Bell.-20.Classification and Management of Mandibular Asymmetry. American Journal of Surgery. December 1960. Dr. Edward Hinds.