Urgent questions
If you experience any of the following:
- Bleeding from the wound
- Discharge from the wound
- Difficulty swallowing or breathing
- Significant nausea and/or vomiting
- Increasing pain or pain not improving
- Significant increase in swelling
- Shift in bite (your teeth move, so it feels different when you bite into something)
- Fever
- The loss of several elastics or wires causing a loosening of the jaw immobilization (if present)
Call 902-473-5238 between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. Messages will be returned as soon as possible.
If it’s busy or outside of the above hours, call 902-473-2222 and ask for the oral surgery resident on call. Stay on the line and the resident will be with you shortly.
Non-urgent questions
Call the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic, Victoria General site between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.
The phone number is 902-473-2070. Messages will be returned as soon as possible.