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Lithuania Report

Nature of OMFS
 

Maxillofacial (single degree medicine) – since 2004. `Some of OMF surgeons have dual degree while obtained medical degree after dental degree, some obtained dental degree after medical degree

Until 2004, it was possible to obtain the degree of “maxillofacial surgeon” after completing either dental or medical education. The situation changed  in 2004, after Lithuania joined the European Union in 2003. Since then, surgeons who had obtained the degree of “maxillofacial surgeon” after completing a dental degree before 2004 were renamed  “oral and maxillofacial surgeons” while those who had completed medical education were designated as “maxillofacial surgeons”.

Some surgeons hold a dual degree: some obtained a medical degree after completing a dental degree, while others obtained a dental degree after  completing a medical degree.
Length of specialty training
 		 5 years
 
Number of OMFS specialists
 

56 (28 - after medical degree (MD), 14 -with dual degrees (MD and DD), 14 - after dental degree (DD)

Gender numbers: Female - 13, Male - 43
Number of OMFS trainees
 		 6
 
Number of OMFS training rotations
 

not applicable
Major (Hub) units
 

Centre of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Zalgirio Clinic, Affiliated Division of the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinic,

Clinic of Maxillofacial Surgery Lithuanian University of Health Sciences , Kaunas

Department of Maxillofacial Surgery Klaipeda University Hospital, Klaipeda
 
National Specialty Assoc.
 

Lithuanian Association of Maxilofacial and Oral Surgeons

 
Contact for specialty association
 		 lietuvosvz @ gmail.com
 
Medical Assoc (confirming status)
 		 Lithuanian Medical Association
 
Section representative
 		 Assoc. Prof. Linas Zaleckas
 
Board representative
 		 Assoc. Prof. Linas Zaleckas
 
Oral Surgery
 		 The speciality of Oral Surgery is a part of the faculty of dentistry. Total number of lincence for oral surgeons – 152, 4 of them are also OMFS. The exact number of oral and also maxillofacial surgeons who are working in hospital and/or office practice is unknown because some of these specialist are  working in both practices, the same is with MF surgeons.
 
Oral surgery training duration
 		 3 years
 

Threats

ENT, Plastic Surgery. Many OMFS work in private practice as oral surgeons (dental surgery/ implantology)