​ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

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• Diagnosis in oral surgery

• Investigations

• Principles of infection control and cross-infection control with particular reference to HIV/AIDS and hepatitis

• Principles of Oral Surgery

• S of instruments - various methods of sterilization, etc

• Pre-anesthetic considerations

• Anesthetic considerations

• Intra-oral incisions 

• Bone removal

• Bone cutting instruments

• Extra-oral skin incisions 

• Normal hemostasis

• Local measures available to control bleeding 

• Hypotensive anesthesia

• Drainage and debridement

• Purpose of drainage in surgical wounds

• Types of drains used

• Debridement: purpose, soft tissue, and bone debridement

• Closure of wounds

• Suturing: Principles, suture material, classification, body response to various materials, etc.

• Postoperative instructions

• Physiology of cold and heat

• Control of pain - analgesics

• Control of infection - antibiotics

• Control of swelling - anti-inflammatory drugs

• Exodontia: General considerations 

• Ideal Extraction

• Indications for extraction of teeth

• Extractions in medically compromised patients

• Methods of extraction

• Principles, types of movement, force, etc involved in the extraction

• Dental elevators: uses, classification, principles in the use of elevators

• Complications of exodontia

• Complications during exodontia

• Post-operative complications

• Prevention and management of complications

• Impacted teeth

• Pre-prosthetic surgery
  Definition, classification of procedures

• Diseases of the maxillary sinus 

• Surgical anatomy of the sinus

• Sinusitis both acute and chronic

• Surgical approach of sinus - the Caldwell-Luc procedure

• Removal of root from the sinus

• Oro-antral fistula - etiology, clinical features and various surgical methods for closure.

• Disorders of temporomandibular joint

• Applied surgical anatomy of the joint

• Dislocation - Types, etiology, clinical features

• Ankylosis 

• Myo-facial pain dysfunction syndrome

• Non-surgical and surgical internal derangement of the joint

• Arthritis of temporomandibular joint.

• Introduction, factors responsible for the infection, the course of odontogenic infections, the spread of odontogenic infections through various facial spaces 

• Dento-alveolar abscess - etiology, clinical features 

• Infections of the oral cavity

• Ludwig's angina - definition, etiology, clinical features, management complications

• Osteomyelitis of the jaws - definition, etiology, predisposing factors, classification, clinical features, and management

• Fractures of the jaws

• General considerations, types of fractures, etiology, clinical features and general principles of management

• Mandibular fractures - applied anatomy, classification

• Management of fractures - reduction closed and open

• Fixation and immobilization methods

• Outline of rigid and semi-rigid internal fixation

• Fractures of the condyle - etiology, classification, clinical features, principles of management

• Fractures of the middle third of the face

• Definition of the midface, applied surgical anatomy, classification, clinical features an outline of management

• Alveolar fractures - methods of management

• Fractures of the zygomatic complex

• Classification, clinical features, indications for treatment, various methods of reduction and fixation

• Complications of fractures - delayed union, non-union, and malunion.

• Trigeminal neuralgia - definition, etiology, clinical features and methods of management including surgical

• Facial paralysis - etiology, clinical features

• Nerve injuries - classification, neurorrhaphy, etc

• Medical emergencies in dental practice

• Emergency drugs

• Intramuscular, intravenous injections

• Local anesthesia

• Use of vasoconstrictors in the local anesthetic solution

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