Textbook for General and Oral Surgery

Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Preface……Page 8
Contributors……Page 10
Contents……Page 12
PART I
GENERAL SURGERY……Page 14
Section A
Basic principles……Page 15
1 Introduction……Page 16
2 History taking……Page 18
3 Wound healing and suture materials……Page 20
4 Complications of surgery……Page 26
5 Fluid balance, metabolism and nutrition……Page 39
6 Blood disorders and their management in
surgical practice……Page 49
7 Cross-infection……Page 59
8 Surgical sepsis……Page 67
9 Fractures……Page 72
10 General anaesthesia……Page 82
11 Conscious sedation techniques……Page 94
Section B
Specialist surgical principles……Page 101
12 Fractures of the facial bones……Page 102
13 Orthognathic surgery……Page 116
14 Salivary gland surgery……Page 123
15 Plastic surgery……Page 135
16 Clefts of the lip and palate……Page 144
17 Management of orofacial malignancy……Page 153
18 Otorhinolaryngology (ENT surgery)……Page 160
19 Neurosurgery……Page 174
20 Temporomandibular joint investigation and
surgery……Page 186
PART II
ORAL SURGERY……Page 192
21 Introduction……Page 193
22 History and examination……Page 194
23 Basic oral surgical techniques……Page 202
24 Local anaesthesia……Page 213
25 Extraction techniques……Page 221
26 Complications of extractions……Page 225
27 Wisdom teeth……Page 232
28 Cysts of the jaws……Page 242
29 Periradicular surgery……Page 251
30 Preprosthetic surgery……Page 256
31 Orthodontics and oral surgery……Page 263
32 Tissue sampling and soft tissue lesions……Page 270
33 Pyogenic dental infection and its spread……Page 276
34 Salivary gland diseases……Page 283
35 Oral surgery in the medically
compromised patient……Page 287
36 Diseases of bone……Page 292
37 Dental implants……Page 305
38 Cryosurgery and laser surgery……Page 314
Index……Page 320