Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation MSc - King’s College London

Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation MSc

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

Ranked 1st in the UK for dentistry (QS World University rankings 2022), the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King’s College London offers high-intensity, hands-on postgraduate education, to bring students to the forefront of their field, whether undertaking specialist training or enhancing their skills via blended learning.

In addition to on-campus study, King’s delivers dental education and training to students from over 50 countries via six distance learning master’s programmes. Designed to meet the professional development needs of practitioners, all include face-to-face training blocks for hands-on experience in a traditional teaching environment and interaction with peers and expert teachers.

Professor Trevor Coward, Programme Director for Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation MSc and Honorary Consultant in Maxillofacial & Craniofacial Rehabilitation, has made significant progress in improving the process and treatment of patients requiring facial prostheses. Professor Coward and his team have developed a new and more reliable method, repurposing 3D printing technology to replicate the prosthesis effectively reducing the cost and speeding up the process.

Professor Coward’s innovative 3-year blended learning MSc programme provides an excellent opportunity for maxillofacial prosthetists, prosthodontists and technologists to enhance their technical skills, including in cutting-edge digital technology, and develop higher standards in clinical practice, specifically in caring for patients requiring facial rehabilitation as a result of trauma, congenital deformity or cancer.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Clinical area; Students’ laboratory; Face-to-face training; Finished coloured prosthesis; Wax pattern ready for patient.

Delivered by renowned experts in the field, the programme is further supplemented by the unique handson training component delivered at Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Pune, India. Students experience intensive teaching and practical training for 9 days in Year 1 and 11 days in Year 2 under expert one-to-one supervision. They treat and fabricate a range of indwelling eyes, implant retained auricular and orbital prostheses for patients from all over Maharashtra and some from as far away from the foothills of Nepal.

“Our face-to-face course in Pune is another reminder that we must not forget to help the people who need it the most. In two weeks in March, we are able to work as a team making positive changes in the lives of the patients that we treat. Facial prostheses restore confidence in their appearance and enable patients to make social interactions a little easier.

It is a rewarding and humbling experience and the patients that we treat are enormously grateful, giving you a whole new perspective of life and to know that your work can help in the health and well-being of a person.” says Naimesha Patel, Senior Lecturer in Maxillofacial Prosthetic Education.

For more information on this course, please visit kcl.ac.uk/mfpr

TOP LEFT: Student technique case colour matched to her own eye TOP RIGHT ABOVE & BELOW: Patient’s old prosthesis; New prosthesis ready for fit 2ND ROW LEFT: Patient presenting with a nasal defect 2ND ROW RIGHT: Nasal prosthesis in situ LEFT: A common sight on the way back to the hotel from the college