Introduction to Surgical Extractions
Course Description
Introduction to Surgical Extractions is the lead-in course to many of KCSI’s more advanced surgical instruction programs, enabling general dentists to master office dental surgery and to make it easier, more predictable and more profitable.
*Note: There is similar material in both Introduction to Surgical Extractions and Continuum 1, 8 hour online section. Please reach out to a KCSI Customer Service agent with any questions.
- Become more confident and comfortable with “surgical” extractions.
- Become more capable of preventing and managing common complications associated with “surgical” extractions.
- Become more familiar with and have on-hand the best instruments and supplies for exodontia.
- Do alveoplasty as often required following multiple extractions
- Case selection
- Soft tissue management to prevent complications
- Bone management to prevent complications
- Use of handpiece and burs
- Use of elevators, Luxators, and forceps
- Suturing
- Postoperative patient care
- Introduction, Models, “How to do Better”
- Level of Competence, When to Refer
- “Standard from the Past”, Avoiding Opioids
- Case Study – 27 year Old Woman
- Step-by-Step Extraction (Steps 1-4)
- Step-by-Step Extraction (Steps 5-6)
- Instruments for Apically Extracting
- Alternatives to the Luxator and Periotome Bur
- Closing the Knowledge Gap Between Dentists and Oral Surgeons
- The Most Effective Instruments for Surgery: Basic
- Ways to Organize and Sterilize, Burs for Oral Surgery
- Sectioning a Tooth
- Suction Tips, Quality Aspirators
- Flaps and Sutures
- Evaluating for CR, Malpractice
- Quiz
- Detecting and Treating a Sinus Perforation
- Exposed Sinus Membrane
- Preventing Tuberosity Fractures
- Sectioning Maxillary Molars, Risks with CPAP Devices
- Sinus Closure with Bone Grafting
- Detecting and Treating a Sinus Perforation
- Exposed Sinus Membrane
- Preventing Tuberosity Fractures
- Sectioning Maxillary Molars, Risks with CPAP Devices
- Sinus Closure with Bone Grafting
- Quiz
- Removal of Multiple Teeth Alveoplasty
- Alveoplasty Procedure, Part 1
- Alveoplasty Procedure, Part 2
- Quiz
- MRONJ Symptoms & Medications
- Risks & Procedures, Staging & Tx Strategies
- Extractions, Case Studies
- Quiz
- Biopsies on Oral Lesions
- Malignant Oral Lesions, Change in Trends, Emerging Risk Factors
- Screening Devices, OralPath Dx, Case Studies
- Quiz
- Infections, Notes from Dr. Alonge
- Buffering Local Anesthetics
- Drug Information Handbook, Antibiotics
- Case for Conservatism, Drain & Compress
- Q&A
- Quiz
- What is INR? Managing Bleeding Associated Medical Issues
- Prothrombin Time (PT), Case Report, Notes from Literature
- Lexicomp App, Case Reports
- Safest Treatment
- Bone Bleeding, Plavix & Pradaxa vs. Coumadin
- Herbal Supplements, Q&A
- When to Graft?
- Collagen Membranes
- Codes
- PRF, Other Methods of Grafting Implants & Antibiotics
- Quiz
Course Description
What to Expect
- Become more confident and comfortable with “surgical” extractions.
- Become more capable of preventing and managing common complications associated with “surgical” extractions.
- Become more familiar with and have on-hand the best instruments and supplies for exodontia.
- Do alveoplasty as often required following multiple extractions
Knowledge Areas to be Evaluated
- Case selection
- Soft tissue management to prevent complications
- Bone management to prevent complications
- Use of handpiece and burs
- Use of elevators, Luxators, and forceps
- Suturing
- Postoperative patient care
Subject Topic: Surgical Extractions
- Introduction, Models, “How to do Better”
- Level of Competence, When to Refer
- “Standard from the Past”, Avoiding Opioids
- Case Study – 27 year Old Woman
- Step-by-Step Extraction (Steps 1-4)
- Step-by-Step Extraction (Steps 5-6)
- Instruments for Apically Extracting
- Alternatives to the Luxator and Periotome Bur
- Closing the Knowledge Gap Between Dentists and Oral Surgeons
- The Most Effective Instruments for Surgery: Basic
- Ways to Organize and Sterilize, Burs for Oral Surgery
- Sectioning a Tooth
- Suction Tips, Quality Aspirators
- Flaps and Sutures
- Evaluating for CR, Malpractice
- Quiz
Subject Topic: Maxillary Sinus and Tooth Extractions
- Detecting and Treating a Sinus Perforation
- Exposed Sinus Membrane
- Preventing Tuberosity Fractures
- Sectioning Maxillary Molars, Risks with CPAP Devices
- Sinus Closure with Bone Grafting
Subject Topic: Moderate Third Molar Surgery Impactions
- Detecting and Treating a Sinus Perforation
- Exposed Sinus Membrane
- Preventing Tuberosity Fractures
- Sectioning Maxillary Molars, Risks with CPAP Devices
- Sinus Closure with Bone Grafting
- Quiz
Subject Topic: Multiple Extractions and Related Concerns
- Removal of Multiple Teeth Alveoplasty
- Alveoplasty Procedure, Part 1
- Alveoplasty Procedure, Part 2
- Quiz
Subject Topic: Bisphosphonates
- MRONJ Symptoms & Medications
- Risks & Procedures, Staging & Tx Strategies
- Extractions, Case Studies
- Quiz
Subject Topic: Oral Cancer
- Biopsies on Oral Lesions
- Malignant Oral Lesions, Change in Trends, Emerging Risk Factors
- Screening Devices, OralPath Dx, Case Studies
- Quiz
Subject Topic: Incision and Drainage
- Infections, Notes from Dr. Alonge
- Buffering Local Anesthetics
- Drug Information Handbook, Antibiotics
- Case for Conservatism, Drain & Compress
- Q&A
- Quiz
Subject Topic: Bleeding: Coumadin, Plavix, and Pradaxa
- What is INR? Managing Bleeding Associated Medical Issues
- Prothrombin Time (PT), Case Report, Notes from Literature
- Lexicomp App, Case Reports
- Safest Treatment
- Bone Bleeding, Plavix & Pradaxa vs. Coumadin
- Herbal Supplements, Q&A
Subject Topic: Bone Grafting for Socket Preservation
- When to Graft?
- Collagen Membranes
- Codes
- PRF, Other Methods of Grafting Implants & Antibiotics
- Quiz