The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is the base one in the system of medical education in Ukraine. There was created Centre of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery on the main site of the department (1998). The major part of the elective surgeries (more than 90%) are conducted by the staff members of the department.
The additional sites of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of NMAPE are the following: City Dental Clinic (10А Pymonenka Str.); Kyiv Dental Clinic №1 of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (43 Mezhyhirs'ka Str.).
The staff members of the department are on duties at the maxillofacial first-aid centre (according to schedule), in Kyiv (in the second half of month) and air medicalі service (in Ukraine). The patients consult the staff members of the department at medical institutions (Medical and Health-improving Association, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Pulmonological Centre, regional clinics and others).
The findings of investigations of the staff members of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery are implemented into the practice of maxillofacial hospitals and educational process of specialized departments of higher medical educational institutions of Kyiv, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Tashkent, Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Semipalatinsk, Lviv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Simferopol, Odessa, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and others.
The developments of the staff members of the department are appreciated by foreign colleagues (from England, the USA, France, Lebanon, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Holland and others). The textbooks of Full Professor O. O. Timofyeyev are compulsory for training of students and doctors not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia, Georgia and other countries.