Manual of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dentist

The Manual of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dentist, Second Edition, continues the aim of providing clear and practical guidance to common surgical procedures encountered in general practice.  Fully revised and updated with three additional chapters, the book approaches each procedure through detailed, step–by–step description and illustration. Ideal for general dental practitioners and students, the book is an indispensable tool for planning, performing, and evaluating a range of surgical procedures in day–to–day practice.

The Manual of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dentist begins with an expanded chapter on patient evaluation and history taking and a new chapter on managing the patient with medical comorbidities.  It also address infections and sedation before procedural chapters on such topics as third molar extractions, preprosthetic surgery, surgical implantology, crown–lengthening, and biopsy of oral lesions.

Key Features

Ideal for general practitioners and dental students Includes three new chapters on surgical implantology, dentoalveolar trauma, and common complications Well illustrated with clinical photographs to demonstrate step–by–step procedures Provides patient management guidelines and appropriate safety protocols

Contributors xxx

Preface xxx

1 Patient Evaluation and History Taking
Dale A. Baur, Andrew Bushey, and Diana Jee–Hyun Lyu

2 Management of the Patient with Medical Comorbidities
David W. Lui and David C. Stanton

3 Anxiolysis and Sedation for Minor Oral Surgery
Kyle Kramer and Jeffrey Bennett

4 Surgical Extractions
Daniel Oreadi

5 Third Molar Extractions
George Blakey

6 Pre–prosthetic oral surgery
Antonia Kolokythas, Jason Jamali, and Michael Miloro

7 Evaluation and Biopsy Technique for Oral Lesions
Marianela Gonzalez

8 Surgical Implantology
Alfonso Caiazzo and Frederico Brugnami

9 Hard Tissue Augmentation for Dental Implants
Pamela Hughes

10 Soft Tissue Surgery for Dental Implants
Hussam Batal

11 Surgical Crown Lengthening
Serge Dibart

12 Endodontic Periradicular Surgery
Louay Abrass

13 Dentoaveloar Trauma
Omar Abubaker and Din Lam

14 Orofacial infections
Thomas Flynn

15 Complications in Minor Oral Surgery
Patrick Louis

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