Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 7th Edition: A Comprehensive Guide

By James R. Hupp DMD, MD, JD, MBA, Myron R. Tucker DDS, Edward Ellis DDS, MS

One of the most respected dental surgery books in the world, Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 7th Edition, is an essential guide for developing skills in evaluation, diagnosis, and patient management. This comprehensive text on oral surgery procedures features full-color photographs and drawings that show how to perform basic surgical techniques, including an overview of more advanced surgical procedures and the latest developments in dental implants, instrumentation, and current technology.

Key Features

A detailed patient evaluation section includes guidelines on when to refer patients to specialists and how to provide supportive postoperative care. New to this edition is a chapter focusing on anesthesia in greater depth than any of the previous editions. Written by well-known OMS educators James R. Hupp, Edward Ellis III, and Myron R. Tucker, this book is a valuable reference for dentistry and dental hygiene students alike.

Updated Chapters

Contemporary Implant Dentistry – Includes new and updated implant surgical techniques and virtual planning.

Treatment of Complex Implant Cases – Features new and updated cases requiring more complex treatment, including bone augmentation surgery in combination with implants.

Management of Sinus Disease – Outlines the fundamental principles for evaluation and treatment of the patient with sinus disease, including endoscopic therapy.

Management of Medication-related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw – Outlines the fundamental principles for evaluation and treatment of the patient.

Facial Cosmetic Surgery – Organized by nonsurgical and surgical procedures, covering popular procedures such as dermal fillers, botox, facial resurfacing, browlift and forehead procedures, blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty, and rhytidectomy.

Additional Highlights

Basic Techniques – Described in enough detail to facilitate immediate clinical application.

Instrumentation – Covers a wide variety of instruments and tray set-ups that OMS surgeons use.

Complex Exodontia – Describes techniques for surgical tooth extraction, including the principles of flap design, development, management, and suturing, as well as open extraction of single- and multi-rooted teeth, multiple extractions, and concomitant alveoloplasty.

High-Quality Images – Hundreds of detailed, close-up photographs of intraoperative sites clarify textual descriptions.

Comprehensive Coverage – Of complex OMS procedures gives you a basic understanding of what you will face later in advanced OMS cases.

New Chapter – Anesthesia in Dentistry focuses on anesthesia in greater depth than any of the previous editions, including local anesthesia and nitrous oxide sedation.

Expert Consult TM eBook Version – Included with purchase allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.