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Austria Report

Nature of OMFS (pick)
 
Dual degree OMFS mandated
 
Timing of second degree (if any) Dentistry before or during specialty training
 
Length of specialty training
 
4 yrs
 
Number of OMFS specialists
 

OMFS surgeons (total) : 281 (220 male, 61 female)

OMFS working in hospitals: 68 ( 49 male, 19 female)

OMFS in (private) practice: 213 (171 male, 42 female)

Number of OMFS trainees
 
45 (33 male, 12 female) 
(in addition to the 281 surgeons)
Number of OMFS training rotations
 
-
 
Major (Hub) units
 
11
 
National Specialty Assoc
 
Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie
 
Contact for specialty association
 

President

Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Millesi
Institut für Mund-, Kiefer-, Gesichtschirurgie und Zahnheilkunde
Klinik Hietzing
Wolkersbergenstraße 1
1130 Wien
Tel.: +43 1 801 10 3201
 

Medical Assoc (confirming status)
 
Oesterreichische Aerztekammer
 
Section representative
 
DDr. Michael Oeckher
 
Board representative
 
Univ. Prof. DDr. Gert Santler
 
Oral Surgery
 

 
Number of oral surgeons
 
In hospital practice: 0
In office practice: 0
 
Oral surgery training duration
 
no Oral Surgery training established
 

Update on national scene - No
 


 
Changes since last year
 
New Austrian aesthetic law allows full scope of aesthetic procedures for plastic surgeon only. Performing aesthetic rhinoplasties, blepharoplasties and otoplasties is not allowed for Oral-Maxillo-Facial Surgeons having started their training after 2015.
 
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