Oral Surgery
Full-scope oral and maxillofacial surgery, led by a dual-degree MD/DMD surgeon board certified by ABOMS. Your patient is treated by the owner of the facility. Not a resident. Not a rotation. The same surgeon, every time.
Our Story
Why this exists
Two years ago, a conference talk named a problem hiding in plain sight. The specialists who will do oral surgery under anesthesia for Medicaid patients are few, and the few who do cannot come close to meeting the need. So the line never moves. Children with infections spreading through their jaws. Adults who need surgery that has to happen under anesthesia and have nowhere to go. Patients with developmental disabilities who cannot be treated in a standard chair. Months on a list, the emergency room, or nothing at all
If you have ever tried to place one of these patients, you know how it goes. The calls. We don't take that insurance. Try the hospital. The hospital booked out past the school year. The patient back in your chair weeks later, in more pain than before, because there was nowhere to send them. A referral that was never going to be answered.
That is what a gap in care actually looks like. Not a statistic. A patient in pain and a provider out of options.
We did not write a grant proposal or organize a volunteer day. We built a surgery center. Real operating rooms. Full anesthesia. Funded entirely by the doctors who operate in it. No private equity. No corporate interests. Independence Surgery Center is the result.
