The surgeons at Profiles are nationally and internationally recognized specialists in the fields of oral and facial surgery. They have trained over 100 oral and maxillofacial surgeons who practice in the United States and several who practice in Oklahoma.

When choosing your surgeon the most important factor is experience. The Profiles oral and facial surgery teams arewithout a doubt the most experienced surgeons in Oklahoma. Our practice focus is on corrective jaw surgery, TMJ reconstruction, cleft lip and palate repair and treatment of craniofacial deformities. This is not a hobby that is practiced every now and then. This is our passion.

Our surgeons have written textbooks, authored many publications and lecturedaround the world on the surgery we specialize in. They have refined techniques, invented medical devices to enhance patient outcomes and taught the FacesFirst treatment planning protocol to hundreds of surgeons.

Drs. Steven M. Sullivan, Kevin S. Smith and Paul S. Tiwana are using leading-edge techniques to change lives. By combining training with innovative technology to perform advanced Oral and Facial reconstruction for traumatic and congenital anomalies. Common procedures include Orthognathic (Jaw Surgery) Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery, and Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Surgery.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery requires up to 6 additional years of hospital based surgical and anesthesia training. As oral and maxillofacial surgeons, our doctors manage a wide variety of problems relating to the mouth, teeth and facial regions. Drs. Sullivan, Smith and Tiwana practicea full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery with expertise ranging from cleft surgery to corrective jaw surgery and wisdom tooth removal. They can also diagnose and treat facial pain, facial injuries and TMJ disorders, and performs a full range of dental implant procedures.

Our staff is trained in assisting with I.V. sedation within our state of the art office setting. Patients are continuously monitored during and after surgery. In addition, general anesthesia provided by a board certified anesthesiologist is available within our facility.

Dr. Steven Sullivan specializes in oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthognathic corrective jaw surgery, and TMJ reconstruction. Dr. Sullivan provides expert care forfacial asymmetry, jaw abnormality, condylar resorption, TMJ pain, and arthritis of the jaw.Doctor Sullivan is a native of Colorado and completed his dental training at Baylor College of Dentistry in 1983. He entered private dental practice for one year before starting oral and maxillofacial surgery training at the University of Oklahoma. He completed his residency in 1988 and then undertook additional training at the West of Scotland Plastic and Oral Surgery Unit in Glasgow. Following his training in Scotland, he joined the University of Melbourne and the Royal Children's Hospital as a surgery fellow in the Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit.

In 1989, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Michigan and the following year recruited to Hennipen County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota to organize the Maxillofacial Trauma Unit within the Department of Dentistry.

Dr. Sullivan returned to the University of Oklahoma in 1992, where he became program director and interim chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Currently, he is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Sullivan served on the examination committee for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and has been president of the Oklahoma Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the Southwest Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Before the surgery, you likely will have braces on your teeth to move them into a new position. These braces will stay on during your surgery and be adjusted about six weeks after you've had jaw surgery.

Corrective jaw surgery is generally performed in a hospital or surgery center. To begin the surgery, you will be placed under general anesthesia, where you fall asleep and generally won't feel pain during the procedure.

There are various ways to perform the surgery, including segmentalism, in which your surgeon cuts your jaw into segments to move it into place, or through a single-piece method, in which there isn't as much sectioning of the jaw.

Generally, your surgeon will pull your cheeks back and begin making cuts inside your mouth. Most of the time, incisions are made inside your mouth, but occasionally your surgeon will make an incision in the cheek to correct issues in the lower jaw.

To correct your upper jaw, your surgeon will make cuts high in the upper lip at the base of the nose inside the mouth. Your surgeon will lift the gum tissue and make surgical cuts in the bones of the upper jaw, moving it where it needs to be. Your surgeon will place screws, plates or other devices inside your jaw to ensure it stays in position.

For your lower jaw, your surgeon will make cuts by your wisdom teeth, lift the gum tissue and make a surgical cut. Once this cut is made, your surgeon will be able to move the bottom of your mouth similar to how a dresser drawer moves, sliding it back or forward where it needs to be.

Dr. Kevin S. Smith is one of Oklahoma City's leadingcleft lip/palate and craniofacial surgeons. Dr Smith was raised in Oklahoma and attended college at The University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. He completed his Doctorate of Dental Surgery at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry in 1988. His academic record was outstanding and he was inducted into the national dental honor society Omicron Kappa Upsilon. Following completion of dental school with honors he was accepted into a one year General Practice Residency at the Veteran Administration in Houston, Texas.

In 1989, Dr. Smith entered a four-year residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The University of Texas-Houston. During his residency he was involved with the cleft lip and palate team and performed numerous procedures regarding cleft lip and palate. This interest in cleft lip and palate care sparked the application and entrance into a one-year fellowship at The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. During his tenure there Dr. Smith participated in the care of pediatric patients and had a special emphasis in on cleft lip and palate surgery and craniofacial surgery. Upon his return to the United States in September 1994, Dr. Smith was appointed assistant professor in Oral and Maxillofacial at the University of Oklahoma.

Currently, Dr. Smith is a Clinical Professor and Residency Program Director. Additionally, he is Co-director of The University of Oklahoma J. W. Keys Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic and The University of Tulsa Mary K. Chapman Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic. Dr. Smith also is involved with the craniofacial surgery and works extensively with pediatric cranial, orbital and facial remodeling. Dr. Smith has continued his service to cleft lip/palate and craniofacial patients through his volunteer service to the Rotary International sponsored project of Thousand Smiles in Ensenada, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Dr. Smith started and ran a clinic in Tecate, Mexico for several years in combination with Smiles International Foundation. He traveled to Romania with internationally acclaimed Operation Smile. He has organized A Smile for a Child Foundation helping children with facial differences.

Dr. Smith is accepting new adult and pediatric patients for general and complex oral and maxillofacial procedures including primary and secondary cleft lip and palate surgery, orthognathic surgery andwisdom tooth extraction.

For Craniomaxillofacial Surgeon, Paul S. Tiwana, DDS, MD, MS, FACS, success is in the most exacting details. The work he does and instructs others in doing requires precision and expert execution. As a fellowship-trained surgical specialist in pediatric and adult facial skeletal reconstruction, Dr. Tiwanas practice is focused on the correction of facial trauma surgery, congenital, developmental, and acquired surgical problems of the mouth, jaws, face, and skull from infancy through adulthood. This includes the management of patients requiring orthognathic (corrective jaw) surgery, pediatric cleft and craniofacial surgery, craniomaxillofacial trauma, and maxillofacial cosmetic surgery.

Educated in both dentistry (Northwestern University) and medicine (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dr. Tiwana completed his residency in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and internship in General Surgery at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. While at UNC he also earned a research master of science degree in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and subsequently completed fellowship training in Pediatric Cleft & Craniofacial Surgery in Washington, DC.

Dr. Tiwana is the Reichmann-Staples Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the College of Dentistry at The University of Oklahoma where he is also dually appointed as a Professor of Surgery in the College of Medicine. He is frequently called upon to share his knowledge and expertise with professional audiences both nationally and internationally. In addition, as a widely published author he has contributed numerous journal articles/book chapters to the professional literature and is an editor of the internationally acclaimed textbook Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Selected Readings in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Tiwana has also received multiple national awards from related professional organizations and is a fellow of the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), a founding fellow of the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery (AACMFS), and is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS).

Dr. Tiwana wrote Atlas of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery alongside Dr. Deepak Kademani. This practical guideoffers detailed, step-by-step instructions and over 2,000 full-color illustrations that demonstrate how to plan for and perform oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures safely and efficiently.