Yankee Dental Congress: Inspiring Innovation 2019

Yankee Dental Congress: Inspiring Innovation is organized by Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) and will be held from Jan 31 - Feb 02, 2019 at Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is a Dentist, Hygienist.

Conference Description:
Attendees will have a unique opportunity to learn detailed anatomy of the pterygomandibular triangle and pterygomaxillary fossa. The dissections target increased understanding and higher success rates for the administration of local anesthesia injections in these “dental injection” spaces. The techniques reviewed include the Vazirani-Akinosi closed mouth mandibular block, the Gow-Gates high ramus mandibular block, and the V2 palatine approach maxillary quadrant block. Various other techniques, by request, will also be discussed, demonstrated, dissected, and practiced with a team approach of the instructors and the attendees working together. A short lecture segment will precede each topic. Skulls, local anesthesia armamentarium, cadaver heads, dissection instruments, and two instruction reference handouts will be provided.

Conference Objectives:
In this course attendees will: 
• Identify by dissection where and how to best give block anesthesia injections in the maxilla and the mandible
•  Review by structure identification the landmarks and variables of local anesthesia needle placement
•  Practice and perform injections on cadavers
•  Isolate, remove, and examine the TMJ, condyle, and condylar capsule
•  Learn, landmark, and perform lingual infiltration
•  Trace the mandibular nerve(s) and the branches from the foramen ovale inferiorly
•  Visualize the anatomy directly in the dissected regions
•  Answer the question: Where am I going wrong anatomically with my injection techniques?