Full Description
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 indispensible 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 besides procedural chapters on such topics as third molar extractions, preprosthetic surgery, surgical implantology, crown-lengthening, and biopsy of oral lesions.
Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
1 Patient Evaluation and History Taking 1
Dale A. Baur Andrew Bushey and Diana Jee-Hyun Lyu
2 Management of the Patient with Medical Comorbidities 11
David W. Lui and David C. Stanton
3 Minimal Sedation for Oral Surgery and Other Dental Procedures 23
Kyle Kramer and Jeffrey Bennett
4 Surgical Extractions 37
Daniel Oreadi
5 Third Molar Extractions 55
George Blakey
6 Pre-prosthetic Oral Surgery 85
Antonia Kolokythas Jason Jamali and Michael Miloro
7 Evaluation and Biopsy Technique for Oral Lesions 103
Marianela Gonzalez Thomas C. Bourland and Cesar A. Guerrero
8 Surgical Implantology 113
Alfonso Caiazzo and Frederico Brugnami
9 Hard-Tissue Augmentation for Dental Implants 127
Pamela Hughes
10 Soft Tissue Surgery for Dental Implants 135
Hussam Batal
11 Surgical Crown Lengthening 165
Serge Dibart
12 Endodontic Periradicular Microsurgery 169
Louay Abrass
13 Dentoalveolar Trauma 225
Omar Abubaker and Din Lam
14 Orofacial Infections 237
Thomas R. Flynn
15 Complications of Dentoalveolar Surgery 265
Patrick J. Louis
Index 295
