Mr Andrew Edwards
Mr Andrew Edwards is a Oral and Maxillofacial Consultant in Lancashire
Based At
NHS base
GMC Number
4499833
Clinic Timetable
Clinical interests
All aspect of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery
Facial deformity, facial trauma and reconstruction
Oral medicine conditions
TMJ problems
Oral facial malignancy
Dento alveolar surgery
Professional Memberships
He holds Honorary Professorship in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals in Chennai, India.
He is also Visiting Professor at the DR M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute with its affiliated medical and dental colleges in Bangalore, India and Adjunct Professor at Datte Meghe institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha.
Within the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow he has been an examiner for the MFDS since 2006 as well as Regional Advisor for the Northwest of England. He was appointed Director of Dental Examinations from 2016 to 2019. In 2019 he was elected to the Office of Vice President of the College and Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery for a period of three years.
He was honoured by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh being awarded Fellowship Ad Hom in 2025.
Academic Background
Qualified BDS in 1987 from University of Dundee He then gained Fellowship in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1993.
He went to medical school qualifying MBChB from the University of Aberdeen in 1998.
Basic surgical training was in the West of Scotland He worked in Colo- rectal, Breast and Vascular Surgery as a trainee and was admitted as Fellow in General Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2001.
He went on to his higher surgical training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for 5 years in the Northwest of England gaining the Intercollegiate Fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2006.
He spent a period working in South Africa as visiting Registrar at the University of Pretoria.
After completion of his maxillofacial training, he was appointed Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon at The Royal Preston Hospital in 2007 specialising in the correction of facial deformity, trauma and reconstructive surgery.
Based at
NHS base
GMC Number
4499833
Clinic Timetable
Clinical interests
All aspect of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery
Facial deformity, facial trauma and reconstruction
Oral medicine conditions
TMJ problems
Oral facial malignancy
Dento alveolar surgery
Professional Memberships
He holds Honorary Professorship in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals in Chennai, India.
He is also Visiting Professor at the DR M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute with its affiliated medical and dental colleges in Bangalore, India and Adjunct Professor at Datte Meghe institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha.
Within the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow he has been an examiner for the MFDS since 2006 as well as Regional Advisor for the Northwest of England. He was appointed Director of Dental Examinations from 2016 to 2019. In 2019 he was elected to the Office of Vice President of the College and Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery for a period of three years.
He was honoured by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh being awarded Fellowship Ad Hom in 2025.
Academic Background
Qualified BDS in 1987 from University of Dundee He then gained Fellowship in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1993.
He went to medical school qualifying MBChB from the University of Aberdeen in 1998.
Basic surgical training was in the West of Scotland He worked in Colo- rectal, Breast and Vascular Surgery as a trainee and was admitted as Fellow in General Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2001.
He went on to his higher surgical training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for 5 years in the Northwest of England gaining the Intercollegiate Fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2006.
He spent a period working in South Africa as visiting Registrar at the University of Pretoria.
After completion of his maxillofacial training, he was appointed Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon at The Royal Preston Hospital in 2007 specialising in the correction of facial deformity, trauma and reconstructive surgery.