The Role of Nutrition in Healing after Maxillofacial Surgery

Includes a Live Web Event on 11/18/2026 at 6:00 PM (CST)

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The Role of Nutrition in Healing after Maxillofacial Surgery

Nutritional status is an often-overlooked and potentially modifiable factor in surgical outcomes. During this 60-minute webinar, attendees will review evidence connecting diet with alveolar bone metabolism and wound healing, including the effects of micronutrients on bone health, bone grafting, soft-tissue healing, implant osseointegration and immune regulation. Discussion also will cover practical strategies for evaluating and optimizing serum micronutrient levels before surgery to support healing and help improve surgical outcomes.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

Identify nutrition as a modifiable patient-related risk factor for implant failure, impaired osseointegration and wound complications, alongside the established risk factors of diabetes, obesity, smoking, alcohol use and osteoporosis.
Describe the roles of key micronutrients such as vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin K2, magnesium, calcium and the B vitamins in bone and soft-tissue health and healing.
Describe the role of macronutrients including carbohydrates, protein and essential fatty acids in bone and soft-tissue health.
Describe ways to correct micronutrient deficiencies.

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Teresa Biggerstaff, DDS, MD

Owner

Oral & Facial Surgery of the Triad

Dr. Biggerstaff has been in private practice in the Triad region of North Carolina since 2008. Her practice focus outside of the typical dentoalveolar procedures is facial cosmetic surgery. Dr. Biggerstaff earned her Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology from Brigham Young University, her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and her Doctor of Medicine degree and Oral and Maxillofacial surgery training from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She completed a fellowship in facial cosmetic surgery at Carolina Surgical Arts in Greensboro, NC. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. She is currently serving as the president of the North Carolina Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and she lectures internationally on the subject of nutrition and healing after maxillofacial surgery.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Continuing Education Provider Approval
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education.

ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this activity for 1.0 continuing education credit(s).

AGD - Accepted Program Provider
FAGD/MAGD Credit
11/1/22-12/31/26
Provider ID# 214680

The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this internet-based live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.