Navigating Oral Surgery and Anaesthesia: Tips, Pitfalls, and Solutions

Navigating Oral Surgery and Anaesthesia: Tips, Pitfalls, and Solutions

This practical, clinically focused course is designed to enhance the confidence and efficiency of dental practitioners performing oral surgery procedures and administering local anaesthesia. Through a combination of evidence-based insights and real-world clinical tips, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to optimise surgical workflows, minimise complications, and improve patient outcomes.

Participants will gain a structured understanding of the management pathways for severe orofacial infections, including early recognition, appropriate intervention, and timely referral to prevent serious complications.

By integrating practical skills with critical clinical reasoning, this course empowers clinicians to navigate common challenges in oral surgery and anaesthesia with greater confidence, efficiency, and safety.

Presenters:

• Associate Professor Nigel Johnson
• Dr Barbara Woodhouse
• Honorary Associate Professor Alex Forrest

Learning Outcomes

• Attendees will have an appreciation of movement and time efficient oral surgery techniques
• Attendees will have confidence in appropriate instrument selection
• Attendees will be aware of the various accessory innervations that may render traditional local anaesthetic techniques ineffective
• Attendees will be able to implement appropriate strategies and techniques to overcome problems due to accessory innervation in dental local anaesthesia
• Attendees will have an understanding about how to manage patients with multiple medical co-morbidities including cardiac, diabetes and osteoporosis medications
• Management pathway for severe orofacial infections will also be discussed.

CPD Hours: 6 scientific hours