COMF 812 Oral Surgery Rotations
This rotation provides didactic and clinical instruction in patient evaluation and management to prepare the resident for performing routine and complicated dentoalveolar procedures. Lecture topics include documentation and patient evaluation, preoperative and postoperative surgery instructions and care, armamentarium used in oral surgery, complications of exodontia, and developing a rationale for third molar surgeries, temporomandibular joint anatomy and pathophysiology, nonsurgical management of temporomandibular joint dysfunction, anatomy of fascial spaces in head and neck, management of the pregnant patient, treatment considerations in the diabetic patient, maxillary sinus grafts, implant failures, and soft tissue considerations, oral cancer diagnosis, lip cancer and parotid tumor treatment. The residents receive clinical training to improve their patient evaluation and dentoalveolar surgical skills with extensive emphasis on becoming proficient in intravenous sedation and analgesia.