ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY I

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Integrated Pre-Clinical Sciences. This is an introductory course for oral and maxillofacial surgery. The goals of this course are to provide students with an overview of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as a specialty of dentistry, recognize and understand appropriate responses to office medical emergencies, understand theories and principles related to dentoalveolar surgery, understand theories and principles of local anesthesia and Nitrous Oxide sedation, and to provide the foundation for the development of oral surgical skills within the scope of general dentistry to optimize patient care. The course will present principles for recognizing dental office emergencies and will prepare students to respond appropriately to those emergencies. The course will include a brief overview of facial and dental anatomy, and students will be able to identify relevant anatomy of the jaws and face. Students will be introduced to the armamentarium used for basic dentoalveolar surgery, and students will be able to recognize by name and number basic instrumentation used for oral surgical procedures at the general dentistry level. Students will be taught principles of infection control, sterile technique, personal protective equipment (PPE), and students will understand correct methods for hand hygiene, the prevention of local environmental contamination, and how to don PPE. Students will understand how to conduct a patient interview, how to determine ASA classifications, and will be able to document accurately every patient encounter. Students will understand local anesthetic pharmacology and local anesthetic administration techniques and will understand how to recognize and prevent complications of local anesthetic. DMD 5365 ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY 2 Integrated Pre-Clinical Sciences. This course builds upon the principles and concepts introduced in Oral and Maxillofacial…