Oral Surgery for the General Practitioner 2019

Oral Surgery for the General Practitioner is organized by Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California (USC) and will be held on Feb 09, 2019 at Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is dentists, periodontists, oral surgeons, prosthodon-tists and all members of the dental team. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7.00 Continuing Education Credits.

Course Description:
This all-day lecture course is designed for general dentists who want to expand their oral surgery experience and better understand and manage dentoalveolar surgical procedures. This comprehensive course will offer you, the general practitioner, an opportunity to better handle your extraction cases, manage complications and know what to avoid.

Course Objectives:
• Perform pre-operative patient evaluation and assess difficult extractions
• Better manage medically compromised patients
• Prescribe medications most commonly used for oral surgery
• Know the latest updates on managing patients on bisphosphonates
• Apply effective local anesthesia techniques
• Use instrumentation for atraumatic extraction and dentoalveolar surgery
• Apply tissue management and flap designs for various surgical procedures
• Effectively retrieve broken root tips utilizing principles of exodontia
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of socket grafting and the relevance of choosing a graft material
• Manage complications more efficiently