Oral and Maxillofacial

The oral and maxillofacial clinic provides a comprehensive, efficient, high quality and caring service for the diagnosis and management of patients referred with congenital and acquired conditions of the face, jaws and neck.

Bedford Hospital is part of the Beds, Herts and Bucks Maxillofacial Network along with Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Lister Hospital at Stevenage, QEII Hospital at Welwyn Garden City and Milton Keynes Hospital.

The department includes fully trained surgeons who are qualified in medicine and dentistry and a consultant orthodontist, maxillofacial technologists and supporting nursing staff. The oral and maxillofacial consultants are:

Mr. M.T. Simpson, consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Mr. C.H. Chan, consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon

To see consultant profiles please visit the 'about my consultant' section of the website.

Clinics

Day	Morning	Afternoon
Monday	Mr Chan, new and follow up patients	Mr Simpson, new patients
Tuesday	Mr Simpson, new and follow up patients Mr Chan, follow up patients	SHO, follow up patients
Wednesday	Mr Simpson, follow up patients
Thursday	Mr Chan, follow up patients
Friday	Mr Chan, new and follow up patients (1st, 2nd and 5th Friday of the month) Mr Simpson, new patients(2nd and 4th Friday of the month) Mr Chan, Head and Neck clinic Mr Chan, new and follow up patients(2nd and 4th Friday of the month)	Mr Simpson and Mrs Darbar, Joint Orthoganthic clinic

Contact Us:

To make, change or cancel a new appointment, please contact the surgical call centre.

To make, change or cancel a follow-up appointment, please contact the oral and maxillofacial receptionist.

You can contact both of these departments via the main hospital switchboard on: 01234 355 122

Patient Information

To view a range of leaflets please visit our patient information library.