Today I really want to put myself in an entry-level surgeon’s shoes.

Or even less-than-entry level. I want to make a video for a young newly graduate! So, if  your ego is already through the roof, just turn everything off and wait for the next article, but remember what a sign in my Crossfit traning gym reads:

SOMEONE OUT THERE IS WARMING UP WITH YOUR MAX!

Let’s start from this assumption: we haven’t talked about it yet, but we will talk about it extensively afterwards – when you will open your practice FROM SCRATCH (which, we’ll see, is absolutely the best way to succeed in your profession): in no way will you have to call the middle-aged, briefcase guy who places implants on piecework! No questions asked now, I’ll explain it to you later on; for now, consider it a dogma: “NO PIECEWORK GUYS ALLOWED IN YOUR PRACTICE PUTTING IMPLANTS”. Forbidden! Full stop!

You’ve got to know that I’ve worked on piecework for years, even though I wasn’t 50, but less than 30. So, I know the topic inside out. Therefore, forget it!

As a prerequisite you, or maybe your associate, absolutely have to learn implantology and oral surgery. Maybe you can save yourself of dealing with periodontic surgery , great reconstructive surgery or extractive surgery complicated by teeth overlapping alveolar canal. But you’ve got to practice “general” implantology, and you’ve got to practice it a lot!

So, as I said before, let’s start from scratch with surgical technique:

A FULL-THICKNESS FLAP RAISING.

I used to work as a collaborator in a practice, some years ago, and I dealt with most of the implantology cases, there. One day, I was one hour late and I asked a young colleague to start anesthesia on a patient who needed to have a super-simple implant placed in zone 3.6 and to elevate the flap. Later on, taken with other patients, I admit I totally forgot about it.?

After all, nobody had come to tell me that the operative field was ready.

After more than half an hour, I suddenly remembered all this because, as I was passing by the corridor, I saw my colleague plodding along and sweating over the patient. She had been bustling about for more than 30 minutes, and hadn’t managed to release that flap yet…

L'articolo DO YOU KNOW THE BASICS OF ORAL SURGERY sembra essere il primo su Mastering Dentistry.