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Catalog/Bulletin 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

DENT 3120 - Clinical Oral Surgery

[48 Hours]
This course is designed for students to perform minor oral surgical procedures previously taught in the didactic course, Oral Surgery. It also emphasizes the importance of a complete preoperative evaluation of the patient as well as the operative and postoperative considerations. This course is a three-week rotation in the Oral Surgery Clinic, where each student does the necessary surgeries to make them competent in uncomplicated and complicated exodontias. The simulation lab is also used to introduce them to these techniques and then for their competencies. This course also includes a biopsy clinic, where all types of biopsies and suturing techniques are performed on calf tongue. (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)