Dental CE Course: Advanced Topics in Dentoalveolar Surgery

Dentoalveolar surgery is often considered the "bread and butter" for most dental clinicians, whether or not you are a general or specialty practice. While it can encompass a majority of the daily patient treatments, it may not go through periodic evaluations as other aspects of your practice. This course will review specific procedures and discuss how to successfully integrate them into a dental practice as well as technique refinement that can help to improve patient outcomes. Topics will include flap design, extractions, infections, impacted teeth, and apical surgery. The instruc?tors will also discuss how to minimize and manage patient complications.

Learning objectives:

* Review flap design and suturing to maximize access and visualization with healing improvement
* Discuss treatment strategies to improve outcomes, reduce infections and dry sockets
* How to recognize mild, moderate, and severe infections and the use of antibiotics in a dental practice
* Discuss treatment strategies to avoid nerve injuries
* Discussion of when to treat, when to refer a patient
* How to manage patients on bisphosphonates or anticoagulant medications
* Impacted teeth and second molar surgical uprighting
* Review apical surgery, specifically how to simplify procedure with ultrasonic preparation and newer retrograde filling materials
* Indications for Cone Beam Scans in dentoalveolar surgery and option for nerve proximity to surgical site