Oral and maxillofacial surgery

This chapter on oral and maxillofacial surgery describes intra-oral and face nerve blocks. Operations include biopsies and excision of small lesions, simple and surgical tooth extraction, apicectomy, odontogenic cyst enucleation and marsupilialization, intra-oral implant insertion, maxillary sinus floor elevation, submandibular duct stone removal, sublingual gland excision, repair of facial laceration including parotid duct repair and facial nerve repair, lateral canthotomy and cantholysis, intermaxillary fixation, open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of mandible, mandibular condyle, zygomatic complex, repair of orbital floor and wall, access for bicoronal flap, bilateral sagittal split osteotomy, maxillary osteotomy, temporal mandibular joint (TMJ) arthrocentesis, eminoplasty and condyloplasty and disc procedures, pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, radial forearm free flap harvest, osteocutaneous iliac crest flap harvest and, fibula free flap harvest.