Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

About this course

This pathway begins with common oral surgical tasks, including tooth extraction and postoperative care. It then reviews impacted teeth, complications, infection, biopsy and trauma in relation to treatment and referral decisions.

Topics include: Instruments, simple extraction and surgical extraction; Impacted teeth and difficulty assessment; Bleeding, nerve injury and postoperative complications; Anaesthesia, anxiety and odontogenic infection; Lesion assessment, biopsy and trauma; Sinus, salivary glands, joints and preprosthetic surgery.

The current pathway contains 8 learning modules, 32 sections and 160 lessons, combining text lessons and practice questions. It is designed for dental students and dentists seeking an organised sequence for study and revision.

1. 1Instrumentation for Basic Oral Surgery5 lessons
2. 2Principles of Routine Exodontia5 lessons
3. 3Open and Transalveolar Extraction5 lessons
4. 4Postextraction Patient Management5 lessons
5. 5Why and When to Remove an Impacted Tooth5 lessons
6. 6Classification of Mandibular Third Molar Impactions5 lessons
7. 7Difficulty Factors and Maxillary Impactions5 lessons
8. 8Surgical Technique and Other Impactions5 lessons
9. 9Intraoperative Complications5 lessons
10. 10Injuries to Adjacent Teeth and Bone5 lessons
11. 11Bleeding and Dry Socket5 lessons
12. 12Nerve Injury and Oroantral Communication5 lessons
13. 13The Anaesthetic Drug: What Silences a Nerve5 lessons
14. 14Where the Needle Goes5 lessons
15. 15When Anaesthesia Goes Wrong5 lessons
16. 16Anxiety, Sedation, and the Critical Moment5 lessons
17. 17When Infection Threatens the Airway5 lessons
18. 18How Bad Is It, and Is It Mine to Treat5 lessons
19. 19Surgery Is the Treatment, Drugs Are the Help5 lessons
20. 20Prophylaxis: When It Is Really Needed5 lessons
21. 21You Found a Lesion: Now What?5 lessons
22. 22Biopsy: The Specimen That Makes the Diagnosis5 lessons
23. 23Cysts and Tumours: Four Methods, One Decision5 lessons
24. 24Malignancy and the Irradiated Patient5 lessons
25. 25Struck: Wounds, Teeth, and the Ticking Clock5 lessons
26. 26Broken Bone: From Airway to Occlusion5 lessons
27. 27The Neighbour Upstairs: The Maxillary Sinus5 lessons
28. 28Saliva Factories and Troublesome Ducts5 lessons
29. 29Saving the Tooth, Preparing the Ridge5 lessons
30. 30Moving the Bones of the Face5 lessons
31. 31The Joint That Clicks, the Pain That Will Not Rest5 lessons
32. 32What Lay Beneath All of This5 lessons