Simple and surgical extraction skills for GDPs

This is a blended learning workshop - there are 3-4 hours of pre-workshop learning online - You will assess a potential extraction, treatment plan simple extraction techniques and surgical extraction techniques.

Then during the full-day hands-on, we’ll work through some set exercises aimed at practicing everything in the videos.

After the workshop you will receive a further 5 hours of videos covering LA, RMH, pharmacy in real surgery and avoiding and dealing with complications.

Aims and objectives:

• To look through RMH and introduce ASA, physical reserve and fitness for surgery
  
• To look at oral anatomy and how it relates to surgical planning and local anaesthetic technique
  
• To understand the range of instruments and materials available to the surgeon (to include types of sutures and haemostats available) and the technique to use them
  
• To review basic exodontia techniques
  
• To progress on to simple surgical extractions and the principles of flap design, removal of obstructions and bone
  
• Use antimicrobials and analgesics in a rational and evidence-based way
  

Learning outcomes:

• Expand their medical knowledge and apply it to their assessment of patient
  
• Understand how oral anatomy relates to oral surgical procedure
  
• Identify appropriate surgical instrumentation and use them effectively
• Establish a systematic approach of progressing through controlled simple to more difficult surgical extractions
  
• Identify risk factors in oral surgery and help avoid complications and how to treat them when they happen
  
• Identify the different types of impactions we commonly encounter
  
• Choose an appropriate treatment approach for individual patients