Modern Oral Surgery

Dental extraction remains the most common NHS surgical procedure undertaken in the UK. With increasing litigation, an ageing population and increasing difficulties in gaining experience in oral surgery, delivering optimum care continues to be a challenge!

This presentation considers how to assess risk, prevent and manage complications and highlights how in the future this care should be delivered.

Topics addressed include:

• The principles of bone sparing oral surgery and its benefit to the patient
• Minimal access for oral surgery and recommended related instruments
• Recognising and minimising the risk to the trigeminal nerve when undertaking extractions, implants and third molar surgery
• Recognising and minimising other common complications related to oral surgery
• Improving patient consent
• Developing a better strategy for assessment in identifying patients at high risk
• When to refer

On completion you should be:

• Aware of the risk benefit when assessing the OS patient.
• Able to identify potential complications and how to avoid them in relation to oral surgery.
• Able to design /modify existing practice more inline with minimal access oral surgery.
• Able to identify and manage operative complications.
• Familiar with improving patient management with regard to consent, information, local anaesthesia, operative techniques and post-operative care.