The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Peking University School of Stomatology, developed from dental unit, Medical College Peking University, which was founded in 1941. As a one of the earliest oral and maxillofacial departments in China, the department was formally established in 1955. In 1982, the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council approved it as one of the first Doctorate Program in China. The first medical PhD degree in China was awarded in this department. Further on it was selected among the first key disciplines being qualified for the “National 211 Project”. Currently it is a designated National Key Discipline, National Continuing Education Base, AO CMF Fellowship Center and IAOMS Oral and Maxillofacial Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery Training Center.

The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is composed of an outpatient clinic, a laser and cosmetic clinic, five wards for in-patients, a resuscitation room, an operation tract with 8 simultaneously running theaters, and one laboratory. The department is equipped with 29 dental units and 150 beds for in-patients, providing medical services to approximately more than 70,000 out-patients and more 5,000 in-patients are operated under general anesthesia per year.

Currently the department has a large number of domestic and international well-known experts and professors. Among the 164 staffs, 52 are doctors, 109 are nurses and 3 are teaching assistants. There are 18 professors/chief physician, 12 associate professors/chief physicians, 15 tutors of doctorate candidate, and 12 supervisors of postgraduate students. More than 80% of the doctors in the department hold doctoral degrees. The department employs every year more than 25 under- and postgraduate students, 20 visiting doctors and 5 International Fellows.

During the last three years, eleven research grants and rewards with an overall amount of 15 million RMB from National Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health of China were granted. 151 papers were published in international and national peer reviewed journals.

Diseases involved in lips, oral cavity(teeth, gingival and alveolar bone, buccal, toungh, mouth floor, palate,oro-pharygeal), face(maxilla, mandibule, orbital, zygoma), cranial base, neck, salivary gland may be treated in oral and maxillofacial surgery. These disease and it’s modadity of treatment are listed below.

1. Alveolar surgery, ie wisdom teeth extraction, alveoloplasty.
2. Oral implantation.
3. Head and neck tumors and tumor-like disease. 
4. Oral and maxillofacial trauma.
5. Congenital developmental deformities such as cleft lip and palate
6. Orthognathic surgery and distraction for acquired cranio-maxillofacial deformities: maxillary protrusion/retrusion, mandibular/retrusion, double maxillary prognathism, craniofacial deformity secondary to cleft lip and cleft palate, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
7. Salivary gland diseases
8. Functional reconstruction of defects of the head and neck.
9. Brachytherapy for malignant tumors in the oral and maxillofacial areas
10. Infectious diseases.
11. Organ transplantation, submandibular gland transfer to treat severe keratoconjunctivitis sicca
12. Facial nerve diseases such as trigeminal neuralgia.
13. Oral and maxillofacial vascular malformations.

Clinical specialties and research topics include: digital techniques and surgical navigation, dental extraction under ECG monitoring, sedation management for oral surgery, radiofrequency treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, brachytherapy for malignant tumors in the oral and maxillofacial areas, surgical treatment for tumors at the base of the skull, submandibular gland transfer to treat severe keratoconjunctivitis sicca, functional surgeries on salivary gland tumors, multidisciplinary management of trauma and related deformities, orthognathic surgery and distraction for cranio-maxillofacial deformities, comprehensive treatment of oral and maxillofacial vascular malformations, functional reconstruction of defects of the head and neck, TMJ ankylosis and surgical management, sequencing treatment of cleft lip and palate, translational medicine, and tissue regeneration.