Manual of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dentist

Pushkar Mehra, BDS, DMD, is Chairman, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Associate Dean for Hospital Affairs, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and Chief of Service, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Boston Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Richard D’Innocenzo, DMD, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Predoctoral Oral Surgery Education at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and Vice Chairman, Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Boston Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Contributors vii

Preface ix

1 Patient Evaluation and History Taking 1
Dale A. Baur Andrew Bushey and Diana Jee-Hyun Lyu

2 Management of the Patient with Medical Comorbidities 11 
David W. Lui and David C. Stanton

3 Minimal Sedation for Oral Surgery and Other Dental Procedures 23
Kyle Kramer and Jeffrey Bennett

4 Surgical Extractions 37
Daniel Oreadi

5 Third Molar Extractions 55
George Blakey

6 Pre-prosthetic Oral Surgery 85
Antonia Kolokythas Jason Jamali and Michael Miloro

7 Evaluation and Biopsy Technique for Oral Lesions 103
Marianela Gonzalez Thomas C. Bourland and Cesar A. Guerrero

8 Surgical Implantology 113
Alfonso Caiazzo and Frederico Brugnami

9 Hard-Tissue Augmentation for Dental Implants 127
Pamela Hughes

10 Soft Tissue Surgery for Dental Implants 135
Hussam Batal

11 Surgical Crown Lengthening 165
Serge Dibart

12 Endodontic Periradicular Microsurgery 169
Louay Abrass

13 Dentoalveolar Trauma 225
Omar Abubaker and Din Lam

14 Orofacial Infections 237
Thomas R. Flynn

15 Complications of Dentoalveolar Surgery 265
Patrick J. Louis

Index 295