Vanderbilt Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Vanderbilt Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery occupies Suite 3501 at 1301 Medical Center Drive, a few hundred meters from the Vanderbilt Dental Clinic at 1500 21st Ave S on the same VUMC campus. Together, these two Vanderbilt-affiliated programs represent distinct levels of care available within the same world-class academic medical complex — routine dentistry and advanced surgical intervention — with referral pathways between them and access to the full VUMC specialist network.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery encompasses a broad range of procedures that go well beyond general dentistry: tooth extractions and wisdom tooth removal, orthognathic jaw surgery, facial trauma repair, oral cancer diagnosis and treatment planning, dental implant placement, and correction of jaw alignment disorders. At VUMC, these services are delivered by surgeons with full access to the hospital's diagnostic imaging, anesthesiology, oncology, and reconstructive surgery infrastructure — a capability set unavailable in freestanding oral surgery offices.

For patients referred for complex surgical needs, the VUMC setting means the oral surgery team can consult directly with oncologists, plastic surgeons, radiologists, and other specialists within the same institution. That level of interdisciplinary coordination is particularly valuable for patients whose oral conditions intersect with broader systemic health concerns, including head and neck cancer, severe trauma, and sleep-related jaw disorders.

Located in the Vanderbilt University Hospital tower complex at 1301 Medical Center Drive, the suite is accessible via the hospital's wayfinding system and VUMC's extensive patient parking facilities. Patients are typically referred from dentists or primary care physicians across Middle Tennessee and beyond, and the practice accepts a wide range of insurance plans through the VUMC contracting structure.