Sir, is there a new specialty (maxillofacial) as your headline suggests in the article reporting a study on knife crime published in The Surgeon (BDJ 2019; 226: 552)? The lead author in that article was a training oral and maxillofacial surgeon and another co-author a consultant cral and maxillofacial surgeon at King's College Hospital. I suspect many of the reported patients attending hospital were first seen by dentists who are debarred from sitting the Royal College examinations to obtain GDC specialty recognition (oral surgery) as described in your other article in that journal (BDJ 2019; 226: 546). Give credit where credit is due and refer correctly to the specialty as oral and maxillofacial surgery. Otherwise why give precious space in our journal to an unrelated specialty that has published elsewhere?