Continuum 1: 14 Hours Hands-On Model Work
Description
The main emphasis of Continuum 1 is to help general dentists attain the ability to more proficiently perform “surgical extractions” that fall within their comfort level. It involves carrying out a treatment plan that includes proper instrumentation, hard and soft tissue management, and tooth removal in a reasonable timeframe. It encompasses effective patient management, avoiding or managing surgical complications, and effectual postoperative care. Principles are ingrained working on models.
This is a 14 hours hands-on model work on surgical extractions.
Discussion ranges from basic to advanced.
- Instrumentation
- Faster “surgical” extractions
- Subtleties of sectioning and easier root retrieval
- Flaps and suturing for exodontia and socket grafting
- Extractions and the sinus
- Multiple extractions and disease removal/alveoplasty
- Exostoses excision and frenectomy
- Incision, drainage and managing infection
- Moderate third molar impactions, mandibular and maxillary case selection and things you need to know to avoid complications.
Realistic Model-Based Training Experience
- Perform 8 extractions (6 surgical)
- Master the “excision” method of root tip removal
- Practice flap design: envelope, triangular, semi-lunar
- Section maxillary and mandibular first molars
- Perform alveoplasty and frenectomy
- Do two socket preservations (traditional & bone plug)
- Refine suturing (cross-horizontal mattress, reverse interrupted, continuous-lock)
- Incise & drain an alveolar ridge abscess with drain placement
Instructor: Andrew Drollinger, DDS
Location: Irving, Texas
MegaGen America – Dallas
909 Lake Carolyn Pkwy, Suite 1800
Irving, TX 75039
*Lunch will be provided.
Schedule
- Date: Friday and Saturday, September 18-19, 2026
- Time: 9 AM-5 PM CT (Lunch break at 1 PM with a few short breaks.)
- Location: MegaGen America – Dallas in Irving, Texas
Venue
MegaGen America – Dallas
909 Lake Carolyn Pkwy, Suite 1800
Irving, TX 75039
Items To Bring to the Course and Dress Code
Suggested Items to Bring to the Course:
- Headlight
- Loupes
- Dental lab coat or gown
Dress Code:
- Dress to your comfort level and be mindful of the dust that may get on your clothing from the hands-on portion with models.
Dr. Andrew Drollinger
Dr. Drollinger has a practice limited to oral surgery in Houston, TX. He recently relocated there after having been an Assistant Professor in Oral Surgery at Roseman College of Dental Medicine in Utah and former Head of their AEGD Program. He has also been a past director of Roseman’s Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction. As full-time faculty, he maintained a private practice doing primarily oral surgery.
Dr. Drollinger received his dental degree at the University of Maryland prior to completing a one-year oral surgery internship, a two-year AEGD Residency, and a two-year Oro-facial Pain and Dysfunction Residency – all three at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA.
Dr. Drollinger teaches oral surgery courses to general dentists throughout the U.S. with an emphasis on surgical extractions and related topics. For KCSI, he routinely teaches one-day lecture courses, two-day hands-on courses, and three-day patient-treatment courses. In addition, he presents to dental school CE departments, DSOs, and state dental association and AGD groups.
He and his family live in a suburb of Houston. He does dental humanitarian work in the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
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