S-14 - Managing Surgical Complexities: Sinuses, Mental Nerve and Palatal Surgery

Friday, April 29, 2022

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM PST

Location: 222

CE: 0.75

Speaker(s)

Samuel I. Kratchman, D.MD

Associate Professor and Director of Microsurgical Endodontics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session Host(s)

Courtney M. Jackson, D.D.S.

Resident
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland

Disclosure: Disclosure information not submitted.

Performing apical surgery has become much more predictable due to the utilization of the operating microscope, along with CBCT imaging. This presentation will focus on achieving access to difficult areas, such as palatal surgery, and describe newer techniques to perform palatal surgery. We will also discuss safe management of the sinuses and the mental nerve, when our surgeries find us in close proximity to these important anatomic landmarks. The presentation is clinically oriented, showing many cases with clinical tips to successful microsurgery.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss various techniques to perform palatal surgery
Comfortably performing microsugery on teeth with lesions in the sinus
Explain the use of CBCT in treatment planning cases where the mandibular roots are in close proximity to the mental foramen