DFT Blackburn - Oral Surgery Practical (NW170127FBN)

FP84 - Blackburn

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Mandatory: Foundation Dentist

To help Foundation Dentists provide better Oral Surgery care for their patients, by improving their Oral Surgery skills in the following areas:

• Assessment of surgical dentistry patients in general practice.
• Undertaking simple surgical procedures, fractured teeth and retained roots, effectively and safely.
• Being aware of, and where appropriate, being able to undertake simple third molar removal, apicectomies on anterior teeth, biopsy of small, non-suspicious lesions and primary closure of an ora-antral communication
• Being aware of personal limitations in provision of Oral Surgery

• Assess surgical patients
• Demonstrate the principles of Flap design, Bone Removal and Suturing
• Demonstrate principles of third molar removal, apicectomies and biopsies
• Review common complications and their management
• Identify appropriate surgical instruments
• Discuss appropriate referral practice and limitations and patient safety

• Be able to assess patient’s surgical needs, and refer where appropriate
• Develop their oral surgery skills as a general dental practitioner to be able to provide simple surgical removal of fractured teeth, retained roots, simple third molars, apicectomies on anterior teeth, biopsy of non-suspicious lesions, and primary closure of an oro-antral communication, where appropriate, and within skill set
• Review surgical instrument needs within a general practice environment