216 Orthognathic Surgery with Radhika Chigurapati : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Learn how to recognize facial skeletal abnormalities, and how to help patients help themselves.   Dr. Radhika Chigurupati is a board certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who specializes in orthognathic surgery for correction of developmental and acquired jaw and facial deformities. She sees both children and adults with jaw deformities, cleft and craniofacial anomalies, tooth eruption disturbances, jaw tumors and maxillofacial pathology, and sleep disorders/obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). She works with her colleagues in other medical and dental specialties to provide interdisciplinary care for these patients at Boston Medical Center (BMC), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Franciscan Hospital for Children (FCFH). She has joined Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine in March 2013 after spending 9 years at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and one and half years at University of Maryland, Baltimore. During that time, she has practiced at UCSF Moffitt Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Dr. Chigurupati completed her Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training at University of Washington (UW), Seattle and subsequently a fellowship in Pediatric Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne, Australia. She has been an active member of the cleft and craniofacial teams at UW, UCSF and RCH.     Radhika Chigurupati, DMD, MS Associate Professor Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 100 East Newton Street Suite 407 Boston, MA 02118 617-638-4386 Email: [email protected]