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Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

  • 6th Edition - March 13, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: James R. Hupp, Myron R. Tucker, Edward Ellis
  • Language: English

A comprehensive guide to oral surgery procedures, Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 6th Edition enhances your skills in evaluation, diagnosis, and patient managemen… Read more

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A comprehensive guide to oral surgery procedures, Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 6th Edition enhances your skills in evaluation, diagnosis, and patient management. Full-color photographs and drawings show how to perform basic surgical techniques, and an overview of more advanced surgical procedures includes guidelines on when to refer patients to specialists and how to provide supportive postoperative care. This edition also includes the latest developments in dental implants, instrumentation, and current technology. Written by well-known OMS educators James R. Hupp, Myron R. Tucker, and Edward Ellis III, this book is a valuable reference for any dental office.

Key features

  • Complex Exodontia
    •  chapter     describes techniques for surgical tooth extraction, including the principles of flap design, development, management, and suturing, as well as open extraction of single- and multi-rooted teeth, multiple extractions, and concomitant alveoloplasty.
  • Management of Medical Emergencies chapter helps you prepare for, prevent, and manage the most common emergencies that may occur in the dental office setting.
  • Management of Facial Fractures chapter outlines the fundamental principles for evaluation and treatment of the patient with facial trauma.
  • Infection Control chapter describes proper cleaning and sterilization of office environment, working surfaces, armamentarium, and personnel to help you prevent the injuries and illnesses that result from improper sterilizing and disinfecting.
  • Convenient appendices offer quick access to resources such as current price lists for key instruments, office record tips, sample drug schedules, examples of prescriptions, and consent forms.

Table of contents

PART I: PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY

1. Preoperative Health Status Evaluation

2. Prevention and Management of Medical Emergencies

3. Principles of Surgery

4. Wound Repair

5. Infection Control in Surgical Practice
PART II: PRINCIPLES OF EXODONTIA

6. Instrumentation for Basic Oral Surgery

7. Principles of Routine Exodontia

8. Principles of More Complex Exodontia

9. Principles of Management of Impacted Teeth

10. Postoperative Patient Management

11. Prevention and Management Extraction Complications

12. Medicolegal Considerations
PART III: PREPROSTHETIC AND IMPLANT SURGERY

13. Preprosthetic Surgery

14. Implant Treatment: Basic Concepts and Techniques

15. Implant Treatment: Advanced Concepts and Complex Cases
PART IV: INFECTIONS

16. Principles of Management and Prevention of Odontogenic Infections

17. Complex Odontogenic Infections

18. Principles of Endodontic Surgery

19. Management of the Patient Undergoing Radiotherapy or Chemotherapy

20. Odontogenic Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus

21. Diagnosis and Management of Salivary Gland Disorders
PART V: MANAGEMENT OF ORAL PATHOLOGIC LESIONS

22. Principles of Differential Diagnosis and Biopsy

23. Surgical Management of Oral Pathologic Lesions
PART VI: ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL TRAUMA

24. Soft Tissue and Dentoalveolar Injuries

25 Management of Facial Fractures
PART VII: DENTOFACIAL DEFORMITIES

26. Correction of Dentofacial Deformities

27. Facial Cosmetic Surgery

28. Management of Patients with Orofacial Clefts

29. Surgical Reconstruction of Defects of the Jaws
PART VIII: TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS AND OTHER FACIAL PAIN DISORDERS

29. Facial Neuropathology

30. Management of Temporomandibular Disorders
PART IX: MANAGEMENT OF THE HOSPITAL PATIENT

32. Management of the Hospitalized Patient
APPENDIXES
I: Instrument List and Typical Retail Prices (2007)
II: Operative Note (Office Record) Component Parts
III: Drug Enforcement Administration Schedule of Drugs and Examples
IV: Examples of Useful Prescriptions
V: Consent for Extractions and Anesthesia
VI: Antibiotic Overview
Index

Review quotes

"Coverage includes fundamental principles of surgical and medical management of oral surgery problems. The book sufficiently covers the depth and breadth of the field. The range of topics from the basics of medical evaluation and patient selection to dentoalvolar surgery and cleft palate repair is impressively presented in a well organized, easy to follow fashion. The concise charts and illustrations are especially helpful for the practitioner. This book is an essential addition to the library of dentists, oral surgeons, residents and dental students."-Joseph Doctora, DDS, MD(Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry) Doody Review: 5 stars

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 13, 2013
  • Language: English

About the authors

JH

James R. Hupp

Affiliations and expertise
Founding Dean and Professor Emeritus of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

MT

Myron R. Tucker

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, USA

EE

Edward Ellis

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA