AO CMF NA Course - Maxillofacial Reconstruction: A Focus on Ballistic Injury Management (Jan 08 - 10, 2027)

AO CMF NA Course - Maxillofacial Reconstruction: A Focus on Ballistic Injury Management is organized by AO North America (AO NA) and will be held from Jan 08 - 10, 2027 at OLC Education & Conference Center, Rosemont, Illinois, United States of America.

Description:
Join a select group of your peers and a nationally prominent multidisciplinary faculty (including AO military experts) to gain practical and immediately applicable skills through extensive cadaver use. This 2 ½ day course emphasizes practical lectures and hands-on experiences from planning a cutting-edge reconstruction procedure for the tertiary reconstruction of an individual’s craniomaxillofacial wound to performing the reconstruction of both hard-tissue and soft-tissue defects under expert mentors in a 3:1 student to expert faculty ratio.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants should be able to:

• Display current knowledge regarding ballistic wound surgical planning and intra-operative management in the field of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery.
• Identify appropriate applications for pre-surgical planning and intra-operative management for treatment of traumatic, avulsive tissue-loss injuries.
• Demonstrate the psychomotor skills necessary to perform both pre-surgical planning and intra-operative techniques including immobilization of soft tissues to adequately reconstruct avulsive soft tissue defects of the head / neck region.
• Discuss the applicability of computer-aided techniques when analyzing post-operative results and outcome analysis.
• Evaluate the problems, complications and intra-operative difficulties that can result from the application of these approaches.