COMF 812 Oral Surgery Rotations
The oral surgery course consists of didactic and clinical instruction in dentoalveolar surgery, moderate intravenous sedation, medical emergencies, pathology, medicine and advanced life support. The course consists of clinical session rotations and didactic sessions (lecture, staff demonstrations, lab exercises, and literature review) throughout the 2 year program. Lecture topics can include but not limited to 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 rotation is meticulously designed to provide residents with in-depth instruction in patient evaluation and management, thereby equipping them with the necessary skills to perform both routine and complex dentoalveolar procedures. The overall goal of the clinical training is to improve the resident's patient evaluation and dentoalveolar surgical skills with extensive emphasis on becoming proficient in intravenous sedation and analgesia.