The Centre's ambitious aim is to continuously collect data on the outcomes of treatment received by every patient in the UK who has a mouth or facial injury or disorder. This will entail scrupulous data collection by UK surgeons and their assistants, consent by people to be followed up over time to determine the long-term results of their treatment, and studying these results to determine best treatment practice. As you can imagine it's a huge undertaking collecting this information on approximately 200,000 people annually who have this treatment. But this effort will be reap exceptional benefits for patients worldwide. These registers of British patients should uncover previously unknown causes of some disorders leading to better prevention strategies. Studying the outcomes of large numbers of patients having different treatment for the same conditions will also reveal the therapies which produce the best results. All treatment is relatively successful but these results will consign the less successful treatments for use only when no other treatment is appropriate. This alone will definitely improve patient outcomes throughout the world and the UK surgeons will lead the world uncovering this knowledge.
All this costs money! And FSRF-Saving Faces is funding this whilst the UK OMF surgeons are providing the academic input. The National Joint Register, a similar undertaking costs more than £2.7 million annually. We think we can run our centre at much less cost – around £500,000 annually
– so it's a bargain! But it's still a lot of money, so we need your help.