Mark E Wong D.D.S.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
6550 Fannin St 2237 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Mark Wong is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Wong specializes in the treatment of problems related to the face, mouth and jaws. As an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Dr. Wong is a unique dental specialist who can provide emergency medicine, perform general surgery and give anesthesia. These medical doctors are the only type of medical care specialist who can administer anesthesia, besides anesthesiologists. Typical procedures performed by Dr. Wong are tooth extractions, especially wisdom teeth, corrective jaw surgery, cleft palate surgery and reconstructive surgery after an injury. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons can also perform dental work including placing dental implants. These surgeons might also deal with conditions of sleep apnea, oral cancers and more.
Education and Training
Foreign 1978
Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Biomechanical tissue characterization of the superior joint space of the porcine temporomandibular joint.
- Effect of biomaterial properties on bone healing in a rabbit tooth extraction socket model.
- Quantitative analysis and comparative regional investigation of the extracellular matrix of the porcine temporomandibular joint disc.
- Materials for orbital reconstruction.
- Carcinoid tumor presenting as trismus: immunohistochemical evidence of metastatic lung disease to the infratemporal fossa.
- Dual delivery of an angiogenic and an osteogenic growth factor for bone regeneration in a critical size defect model.
- Antibiotic-releasing porous polymethylmethacrylate constructs for osseous space maintenance and infection control.
- Evaluation of soft tissue coverage over porous polymethylmethacrylate space
- Antibiotic-releasing porous polymethylmethacrylate/gelatin/antibiotic constructs for craniofacial tissue engineering.
- New method for analysis of facial growth in a pediatric reconstructed mandible.
- The surgical and orthodontic management of cherubism in a growing child.
- American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery role as the certifying
- In situ formation of porous space maintainers in a composite tissue defect.
- Characterization of porous polymethylmethacrylate space maintainers for craniofacial reconstruction.
- Evaluation of antibiotic releasing porous polymethylmethacrylate space maintainers in an infected composite tissue defect model.
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