• Key procedures illustrated in full color.
• Every aspect of the discipline covered.
• Written specifically for general dentists and undergraduate dental students.
• Based on the HST, (health science and technology) curriculum, therefore directly relevant to exams and clinical practice.

General dentists are equipped to do basic oral surgery such as tooth extractions and the like. More serious procedures involving extensive infection or malignancy are generally referred for hospital treatment. Dentists must learn how to decide which oral disorders can be treated in their office and which need more specialized treatment. David Mitchell's Introduction to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery provides dentists with all the information required to cope with the more complex dental disorders requiring hospital treatment.

The initial chapters aim to inform, adding to what is already known, the next section to instruct and the final chapters mainly to inspire those who are interested to read further and perhaps embark on the arduous but worthwhile training this specialty has to offer. It does not aim to rival larger, multi-author specialist texts in covering the more esoteric aspects of the specialty in detail.

It is hoped that whoever chooses to read this book will find it easier to learn something about this exciting and relatively young surgical specialty than has previously been the case. At the end of each chapter, where appropriate the author has included some recommendations for further reading.


Readership: Third to fifth year dental undergraduates / general dentists / postgraduates specializing in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Contents
Basic Patient Care
1 What is oral and maxillofacial surgery?
2 Basic principles and getting started
3 Asepsis, antisepsis and instruments
4 Managing people, pain and anxiety
5 Medical management of the oral and maxillofacial surgical patient
Oral Surgery
6 Exodontia and its sequelae
7 Surgical endodontics
8 Third molar surgery
9 Dentoalveolar surgery for orthodontics
10 Oro facial injections
11 Cysts of the jaw
12 Benign surgical conditions of the mouth, jaws and neck
13 The paranasal sinuses
14 The temporomandibular joint and facial pain
15 Implantology and preprosthetic surgery
Maxillofacial Surgery
16 Maxillofacial trauma - hard tissue trauma
17 Maxillofacial trauma - soft tissue trauma
18 Facial skin cancer
19 Orthognathic surgery
20 Cleft and craniofacial anomaly surgery
21 The salivary glands
22 Oral cancer
23 Reconstruction of the mouth, jaws and face
24 Facial aesthetic surgery
25 Cutting edge
26 Useful information


Authors, editors, and contributors

David Mitchell, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Honorary Consultant and Senior Lecturer, Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust, Leeds; Raven Department of Education Tutor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons




Contributors: Dr Steven Bassi, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Eastman Dental Institute, UK Dr Martin Chan, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Leeds Dental Institute, UK Dr Kelvin Mizen, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Pindersfields General Hospital, UK Dr James Spencer, Consultant Orthodontist, Pindersfield General Hospital, UK Dr T. K. Ong, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Leeds Dental Institute, UK Dr Kanak Patal, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, St Luke's Hospital Bradford, UK Dr Gillon Fabbroni, Specialist Registrar in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Leeds Dental Institute, UK Dr Martin Telfer, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, York District Hospital, UK Dr Shelia Fisher, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Leeds Dental Institute, UK Dr Stephen Macleod, Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hennepin Medical Centre, Minneapolis, USA Dr Don Starr, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Hull Royal Infirmary Dr James Carey, Staff Grade in Oral Surgery, Leeds Dental Institute, Clarendon Way, Leeds, UK Dr Fiona Carmichael, Consultant Radiologist, Leeds Dental Institute, Clarendon Way, Leeds, UK Dr Abdul Dalghous, Staff Grade in Maxillofacial Surgery, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, UK Mr Patrick McCann, Specialist Registrar, Maxillofacial Surgery, St Luke's General Hospital, Bradford, UK Dr Louise Middlefell, Staff Grade in Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral and Facial Specialties Department, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK Mr Mike Perry, Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Dr K A Phillips, Locum Anaethetist, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, UK Dr P Scott Dr M Verma