文档介绍：An Atlas of
Minor Oral Surgery
Principles and Practice
Second Edition
David A McGowan
MDS, PhD, FDSRCS, FFDRCSI, FDSRCPSG
Professor of Oral Surgery
University of Glasgow, UK
MARTIN DUNITZ
© Martin Dunitz Ltd 1 989, 1999
First published in the United Kingdom in 1989
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Second edition 1999
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Preface
Despite the ess of prevention, and the circumstances and, most important of all, the
improvement in dental health in many parts of the needs of the individual patient. General principles
world, the ability to extract teeth is still a neces- are emphasized and illustrated by examples of the
sary skill for most dentists. Patients do not moner procedures. 'Minor oral surgery'
the experience, but control of anxiety, prises those surgical operations that can
of pain and reduction of fort will earn fortably pleted by a practised nonspe-
gratitude. As in any form of surgery, complica- cialist dentist in not more than 30 minutes under
tions must arise from time to time, and the local anaesthesia. This defines the scope of the
dentist who undertakes to extract teeth has to book. It is intended as a guide book to all those
be pre