About: Norman Lester Rowe

Norman Rowe (15 December 1915 – 4 August 1991), was a British oral and maxillofacial surgeon who was a defining influence in the development of oral and maxillofacial surgery in the United Kingdom. He became a consultant first at the WWII Emergency Medical Service Hospital at Rooksdown House, Park Prewitt, Basingstoke in 1948 and later at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, from 1959 to 1980. He was also a consultant at the Westminster Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospitals and was one of the original founders of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He helped to establish oral and maxillofacial surgeons as leaders in the treatment of facial injuries by publishing Fractures of the Facial Skeleton in 1955 with his colleague and friend Homer Killey and inspired and tr