AAOMS Events vs Maxillofacial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AAOMS Events
Enhance your event experience with note-taking directly on presentation slides and posters. Connect with other attendees through in-app messaging, tweeting, and emailing to share information.
- Take notes on presentation slides
- Draw directly on slides
- Note-taking on posters and exhibitors
- In-app messaging with attendees
- Share information via tweeting and emailing
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****FOR ATTENDEES ONLY**** Users can take notes adjacent available presentation slides and draw directly on slides inside the app. Note-taking is also available in the posters and exhibitors modules. Additionally, users can share information with attendees and colleagues with in app messaging, tweeting and emailing.
Maxillofacial
This app consolidates oral and maxillofacial surgery knowledge, offering a surgical atlas, coding reference, scholarly search engine, and a professional forum. It's designed for efficient clinical reference, board preparation, and professional discussion.
- Surgical atlas of OMS procedures
- Coding reference (CDT, CPT, ICD-10)
- Scholarly search engine
- Professional community forum
- Anatomy and perioperative care reference
- Board preparation support
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Maxillofacial integrates the body of oral and maxillofacial surgery knowledge into a single application, comprising a surgical atlas, coding reference, scholarly search engine, and the specialty's first dedicated professional forum. ATLAS A growing compendium of OMS procedures, structured for efficient reference before, during, or after operative care — designed as a working clinical resource for surgeons REFERENCE Organized across Anatomy, Perioperative Care, Emergency Management, Pathology, and Didactics, supporting concept review, board preparation, and protocol verification at the point of care. SCHOLAR A clinical query interface accepting natural language and standard OMS terminology, returning synthesized, citation-backed responses cross-referenced against major bibliographic indexes and current specialty guidelines, ranked according to evidentiary quality, with each claim traceable to its primary source. Scholar is intended as an educational and research reference tool and does not substitute for independent clinical judgment; all guidance should be verified against primary sources prior to clinical application. CODING Specialty-specific lookup across CDT, CPT, and ICD-10, facilitating direct progression from diagnosis to procedure to billing code within a single interface — addressing the persistent overlap between medical and dental coding in OMS practice. FORUM The first dedicated professional community for oral and maxillofacial surgery, supporting case discussion, residency and fellowship inquiry, practice management dialogue, and international collegial exchange among residents, attendings, and program directors. Maxillofacial serves as a unified repository of specialty knowledge and professional community — for residents preparing for board examination, attendings managing clinical practice, and program directors advancing surgical education. Download to join the conversation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Maxillofacial at every 3 days against AAOMS Events's every 3 months. AAOMS Events's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and ratings volume (155 vs 12). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for AAOMS Events against 4.7 for Maxillofacial. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AAOMS Events has 155 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of AAOMS Events's written reviews are positive against 83% of Maxillofacial's.
AAOMS Events ships an update every 3 months, Maxillofacial every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AAOMS Events | Maxillofacial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (155 ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) | Maxillofacial Foundation LLC |
Customer experience
AAOMS Events
Maxillofacial
In-app purchases
AAOMS Events
No in-app purchases
Maxillofacial
No in-app purchases






