We use cookies to help provide the best experience on our website. We do this by tracking how the website is used and when appropriate remembering your preferences. If you continue, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Spire Healthcare website.
Read our privacy and cookie policy
01582 763191 Enquire
Please type into the search bar above to begin your search
Please type three or more characters above to begin your search
Please type into the search bar above to begin your search
Please type three or more characters above to begin your search
Make an enquiry

Practising at

Spire Harpenden Hospital
Tel: 01582 763191

Mr Kostas Karavidas

Consultant Maxillofacial / Head and Neck Surgeon

MD, DDS, PhD, FEB(OMFS)

Specialises in

Make an enquiry
I am a Consultant Maxillofacial/Head and Neck and Oral surgeon at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital since the beginning of May 2012 and a core member of the Head and Neck Multidisciplinary Team. I perform facial reconstructive surgery for cancer patients and I am an expert in minimally invasive treatment of obstructive salivary gland disease.I specialise in head and neck cancer, facial reconstruction and rehabilitation with microsurgery and free tissue transfer, skin cancer, sialendoscopy and minimal intaroral surgery for obstructive salivary gland disease (stones and strictures), salivary gland surgery, paediatric oral surgery and tongue ties.I perform regular sialendoscopies, utilising all forms of minimal treatment for the obstructive disease of the salivary glands including laser intraluminal fragmentation of stones, basket retrieval of stones, balloon sialoplasties and the intraoral ductal stretching technique for the deeply seated stones in the hilum of the submandibular gland.I have performed a high volume of free tissue transfer for reconstruction of the facial defects with a variety of flaps. Nowadays reconstruction is patient specific and I often include a virtual surgical planning in the surgical treatment of my patients.
Read more...

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Mr Kostas Karavidas at Spire include:

Other treatments

  • Facial reconstruction and rehabilitation with microsurgery and free tissue transfer
  • Head and neck cancer
  • Paediatric oral surgery and tongue ties
  • Salivary gland surgery
  • Sialendoscopy and minimal intraoral surgery for obstructive salivary gland disease(stones and strictures)
  • Skin cancer

Get in touch

Important information about Covid-19 tests

Spire Harpenden Hospital is only able to provide Covid-19 tests to patients undergoing surgery at our hospital. Covid-19 testing or antibody tests are not available as a standalone service.

81190
True
consultant
Marketing Information

Spire would like to provide you with marketing information about products and services offered by Spire and by selected third-party partners. If you do not consent for us to process your personal data for marketing activities, we will still be able to contact you about your enquiry.

We may contact you by email, SMS or phone about your enquiry. If we try to contact you by phone (mobile and/or landline) and you are not available, we may leave you a voicemail message. We may also use your details to contact you about patient surveys we use for improving our service or monitoring outcomes, which are not a form of marketing.

Additional information

Clinical interests

Facial surgery
Head and neck surgery
Maxillofacial surgery
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Oral surgery

Qualification and professional memberships

MD / University of Ioannina / 1998
Medical Degree

DDS / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. / 2002
Doctor in Dental Surgery

FEB(OMFS) / Brugge/UEMS / 2010
Fellow of European Board in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,

PhD / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / 2013
Philosophic Doctorate in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Professional memberships

British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, BAOMS

European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeons, EACMFS

British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, BAHNO

Professional leadership

Clinical Lead for Trauma Audit at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital

Research and publications

Articles

Minimal surgery for parotid stones: a 7-year endoscopic experience.
01/01/2010

Current NHS posts

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Foundation trust/ QEII Hospital.

Contact information

Telephone 0800 585 112
Private secretary Mrs Emma Dolby
Private secretary telephone 07484 849 381
Private secretary email info@sialendoscopy.co.uk