Our consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon David Mitchell is heading to the BMA Book "Oscars" tonight in London.

Mr Mitchell has been associated with the Maxillofacial Team at HRI for more than 20 years and is one of the leaders in his field. 

His clinical guide – titled An Introduction to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery – is in the running for BMA Book of the Year at the awards. It is a second edition after his first edition was a sell-out around the world including Russia.

The textbook, co-written with colleagues from Germany and America, covers the whole specialty and is wide ranging from undergraduates to specialists about to take their Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons exams after up to 20 years of training. Maxillofacial specialists are trained doctors, dentists and surgeons which makes the training one of the longest there is.

He said “I am proud to be part of a team with such a marvellous record in the field. There have been huge advances for patients and complex surgery has become routine so we can offer better reconstruction than ever before which is so much better for the patients we care for.”