MCQs in Oral Surgery

This comprehensive multiple choice questions style book covers most aspects of oral surgery. It uses real clinical scenarios with extensive answers based on textbooks and current literature. The reader will gain a broad understanding and confidence in different flap designs with their clinical indications, dentoalveolar surgery, correct use of exodontia instruments, soft tissue surgery, orthodontic surgery and surgical endodontics. The book also delves into dental infections and their management, medication related osteonecrosis of the jaw, trauma, surgical aspects of dental implants, oroantral communication, and orofacial pain. It also covers basic sciences, bleeding tendency and anticoagulants, local anaesthesia and sedation, different odontogenic and non-odontogenic lesions of the jaw. The second edition is an overall expansion and refinement with addition of PRF (platelet rich fibrin) principles and uses in contemporary practice. It also touches Botulinum toxin type A, and discusses its role in oral surgery. The target audience for this book would be oral and maxillofacial surgeons, dental surgeons, and clinicians with an interest in oral surgery. The book will be of particular interest for candidates sitting their exit exams.