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Have you ever had a routine dental extraction turn ugly? Don't let minor complications such as broken root tips stump you! Learn how to manage oral surgery cases with confidence and minimal stress.

This all-day lecture course is designed for general dentists who want to expand their oral surgery experience and better understand and manage dento-alveolar surgical procedures. This comprehensive course will offer you, the general practitioner, an opportunity to better handle your extraction cases, manage complications and know what to avoid. Special emphasis will be placed on minimally invasive tooth removal techniques for alveolar ridge preservation.

UPON COMPLETION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

Perform pre-operative patient evaluation and assess difficult extractions

Manage medically compromised patients

Prescribe medications most commonly used for oral surgery

Know the latest updates on managing patients on biophosphonates

Apply effective local anesthesia techniques

Know how to use instrumentation for atraumatic extraction and dentoalveolar surgery

Apply tissue management and flap designs for various surgical procedures

Know principles of exodontia to effectively retrieve broken root tips

Understand the advantages and disadvantages of socket grafting and the relevance of choosing a graft material

Manage complications