Dental CE Course: Oral Surgery Secrets - Advanced Techniques for Today's Practice

This oral surgery presentation gives ideas and recommendations that will simplify procedures, make them more easy and predictable, and help you broaden the range of operations performed in your office from exodontia to alveoplasty and apicos. Techniques are shared that will expedite the most stubborn extractions. Key elements of partial bony third molar impactions are also reviewed. Along with that, Dr. Koerner discusses effective one-drug oral sedation and how to minimize swelling with potent anti-inflammatories. He takes the confusion out of aesthetic bone grafts for extraction sites. In summary, Dr. Koerner clarifies current standards of care for surgery procedures common to general practice.
During the workshop part of the course, procedures will be performed on life-like models - using and reaffirming the surgical principles discussed in the didactic portion. Participants will perform a "surgical" extraction, partial bony impaction, apico and other procedures as time permits.
Course Objectives - As a result of attending this course, the participant should be able to:
Perform oral surgery according to current standards of care
More easily do "surgical" extractions and other difficult extractions like partial bony third molars
Control patient anxiety
Better control or prevent swelling, pain, infection, and bleeding
Prevent or manage maxillary sinus problems and tuberosity fractures
Required Equipment - Please bring the following items for use during the lab portion of the class:
Scalpel handle and two #15 blades
Gingival flap retractor (such as Minnesota or Seldin #23)
Periosteal elevator of choice (Molt #9, Woodson, etc.)
Needle holder
Suture material: 3-0 or 4-0 gut, chromic, or silk (preferred needle: fs-2 or c-6)
Handpiece: 4 hole (Recommended: Surgical highspeed such as Sabra, Impact-Air 45, or Medidenta)
Surgical length burs, such as 702 or 1702 (or 703)
Round burs #1 and/or #2 for making apico retroprep (in lieu of microhead or ultrasonic handpiece)
Forceps, such as 150-151
Straight elevators, such as 301, 34S
Surgical scissors
Root tip picks, such as Hu-Friedy Heidbrink 2-3 (larger) and/or West 2-3 (smaller)
Dappen dish
Cotton pliers
Surgical spoon curette (wide spoon for infection and follicle enucleation)
HF Lucas 86
Regular periodontal curette, such as Gracie 7-8
Smallest plugger you have (for condensing cement into apico retroprep)
Amalgam carver (a small one, for carving excess cement off retroprep)
Other instruments to be discussed in the course:
Cogswell B: angled, pointed elevator from Hu-Friedy
Small Cryers #21-22: from Schumacher
Luxators
Per day tuition increases by $10 per participant if registering after May 15.