Oral Surgery Workshop for GDPs

29 January 8:30AM – 30 January 6:00PM 2026

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Date: 29 January 8:30AM – 30 January 6:00PM 2026
Location: MANDEC 3rd Floor, University Dental Hospital, Higher Cambridge Street, M15 6FH
Price: £1349.00 + VAT

Our most complete course - An absolutely bumper oral surgery course with everything we could throw at you. Suitable for all levels of experience, you’ll use pigs heads, models and phantom heads to tackle teeth, roots, flaps, suturing, sectioning, bone removal, luxating, elevating, forceps and wisdom teeth. This course has 6 hours of online pre-course material, 2 hands-on days that are 100% hands-on, and 6 hours of online post-course material.

Aims & Objectives

Delegates will:
- Look at oral anatomy and how it relates to surgical planning
- Understand the range of instruments and materials available to the surgeon (to include types of sutures and haemostats available) and the technique to use them
- Look at how we assess different patients and teeth
- Review basic exodontia techniques
- Progress on to simple surgical techniques and the principles of flap design, removal of obstructions and bone removal
- Discuss different extraction plans for different teeth
- Look at the correct terminology and nomenclature for impactions
- Look specifically at wisdom tooth removal and the relevant approach to different types of impaction
- Look at the surgical approach relating to relevant anatomy like the IDC and lingual nerve
- Look at some of the sequelae of treatment and non treatment
- Explore an overview of key medical conditions relevant to the clinician
- Discuss and outline when to refer patients with certain medical conditions (referencing physical reserve and ASA rating)
- Understand what sepsis is, its effect on the body and risk factors for developing it
- Understand medical histories/assessments for the dental practice
- Review our role in antibiotic stewardship and promote best practice in oral surgery
- Revise some basic nerve anatomy, relating to innervation of the teeth and jaws
- Revise different local anaesthetic techniques (including IDB v infiltrations in the mandible)
- Look at reasons for failure of anesthesia
- Learn some top tips for successful LA and patient anxiety management

Event Content

- Understand how oral anatomy relates to oral surgical procedures
- Identify appropriate surgical instrumentation and use them effectively
- Establish a systematic approach of progressing through controlled simple to more difficult surgical extractions
- Identify the different types of impactions we commonly encounter
- Explain the anatomy and nerve supply of the teeth and jaws
- Carry out several different local anaesthetic techniques
- Recognise common reasons for failure of anaesthesia
- Define dental anxiety, fear and phobia and understand the options available to help anxious patients
- Utilise some basic language, rapport and communication skills with anxious patients

Benefits

- Gain 28 hours of CPD

Resulting Qualification

N/A

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