Oral Surgery Specialty Group Lecture Only for the OMS and Team Members

MORNING SESSIONS:

Session I: 9:00 – 10:30 AM 

ORAL CANCER: FROM DIAGNOSIS TO SURVIVAL

Follow the journey of an oral cancer patient from your office to treatment to survival.

There are about 54,000 new cases of oral cancer diagnosis each year in the US. The dental community most frequently finds and diagnoses these cancers but often providers are not sure what happens to these patients after they find the lesion and a referral is made. This talk will show the steps involved in the metastatic workup, what treatment modalities are available, and how these patients are monitored after treatment. Lastly, we’ll discuss what survival looks like for these patients.

Session II: 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

BENIGN DISEASES OF THE JAW

An overview of benign diseases of maxillofacial complex.

The vast major of diseases of the jaw are benign. These can range from very minor requiring little to no treatment, to very aggressive requiring extensive treatments. This will discuss both diagnosis and treatment of odontogenic cyst, tumors, and non-odontogenic lesions. This will also discuss how these different lesions present radiographically and clinically. This will also show cases of each these disease processes. We will spend sometimes discussing controversies in naming and treatment of the odontogenic keratocyte and the ameloblastoma. 

AFTERNOON SESSION:

Session III: 1:15 – 3:00 PM

MAXILLARY RECONSTRUCTION

Reconstruction of the maxilla is significantly more complicated than the mandible.

Maxillary defects can be the result of traumatic, infection, pathologic, or congenital causes. No matter the cause of the defect reconstructing the maxillary defect provides a significant challenge. This course will review a defect-driven approach to reconstructing the maxilla. We will talk about non-surgical reconstruction such as obturators, to implant driven reconstruction (traditional and zygomatic), all the way to local, regional, and free flap reconstruction. We will also discuss newer techniques such as individual patient solution implants and jaw-in-a-day reconstruction of the maxilla.