PRACTICAL ORAL SURGERY FOR GENERAL DENTISTS

Friday, October 16, 2015

8:30 am – 11:30 am (3 CE hrs)

Room 106-B

This presentation is designed to share practical guidelines on patient management, modern armamentarium, exodontia techniques and tips plus much more.

Course Objectives:

·       Pertinent medical management issues

·       Anxiety and pain control

·       Dento-alveolar surgery introducing atraumatic technique concepts and armamentarium

·       Socket preservation grafting

·       Complications

·       Third molar surgery techniques

·       Understanding and management of infections

·       Biopsy techniques

·       Medical emergencies

Recommended for…Dentists.

John L. Alonge, MS, DDS is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology.  He is currently in private practice in Erie, Pennsylvania.  Dr. Alonge is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Maryland, where he received his DDS as well as a MS Degree in Anatomy.

Dr. Alonge was selected for the U.S. Air Force general practice residency program at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona and was then transferred to Hickam AFB, Hawaii where for three years he served as chief of Outpatient Oral Surgery prior to entering formal oral and maxillofacial residency training at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.  Upon completion of his surgery training in 1990, Dr. Alonge was then assigned to Wright-Patterson USAF Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio where he served as Oral Surgery Training Officer for the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Program until 1994.

As a result of his years of teaching, Dr. Alonge has extensive experience in all subspecialty areas such as dento-alveolar surgery, dental implants, anesthesia, corrective jaw and facial surgery.  Dr. Alonge has lectured regionally, nationally and internationally and is on the Examination Committee for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 

Dr. Alonge is not associated with, employed by, nor consults for, any manufacturer, supplier, or retailer of dental instruments or materials.