Oral Surgery

Course Overview

The DClinDent in Oral Surgery is a three-year, full-time programme which will allow the candidate to achieve specialist-level training in oral surgery, together with a taught professional Doctorate, preparing them for the Speciality examination of Membership in Oral Surgery (MOralSurg) of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (Tricollegiate Edinburgh, Glasgow, England) UK.

The DClinDent aims to provide doctoral level educational opportunities to enable students to develop, consolidate and enhance their range of academic and clinical competencies to enable independent and reflective practice at the standard of a specialist in oral surgery.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Ability to produce good clinical care whilst maintaining good clinical practice
2. Good understanding of the basic biological science relevant to oral surgery
3. Ability to carry out the extraction of teeth and retained roots and management of complications
4. Knowledge to deal with odontogenic and all other infections of the orofacial region and benign salivary gland disease
5. Fluent in the management of impacted and unerupted teeth and dentoalveolar surgery in relation to orthodontic treatment , peri-radicular surgery, treatment of benign cystic lesion of the oral hard and soft tissues
6. Familiarity with appropriate anxiety management techniques and management of orofacial pain
7. Familiarity with the management of benign and malignant lesions arising in, or presenting in the oral cavity

Program Outline

This programme is for dental surgery graduates who wish to extend their knowledge, clinical practice experience and expertise in oral surgery.

The programme will give you theoretical and practical understanding of oral surgery and how it relates to other dental specialities.

The syllabus components are based on the core competencies for oral surgery training as set out by Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) for Oral Surgery, The Faculty of Dental Surgery The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2014) :

1. extraction of teeth & retained roots/pathology
2. management of associated complications including oro-antral fistula
3. management of odontogenic and all other oral infections
4. management of impacted teeth
5. management of complications
6. peri-radicular surgery
7. dentoalveolar surgery in relation to orthodontic treatment
8. intraoral and labial biopsy techniques
9. treatment of intra-oral benign and cystic lesions of hard and soft tissues
10. management of benign salivary gland disease by intra-oral techniques and familiarity with the diagnosis and treatment of other salivary gland diseases
11. insertion of osseointegrated dental implants including bone augmentation and soft tissue management
12. appropriate pain and anxiety control including the administration of standard conscious sedation techniques
13. management of adults and children as in-patients, including the medically at risk patient
14. management of dento-alveolar trauma and familiarity with the management and treatment of fractures of the jaws and facial skeleton
15. management of oro-facial pain including temporomandibular joint disorders
16. clinical diagnosis of oral cancer and potentially malignant diseases, familiarity with their management and appropriate referral
17. the diagnosis of dentofacial deformity and familiarity with its management and treatment
18. diagnosis of oral mucosal diseases and familiarity with their management and appropriate referral
19. control of cross-infection
20. medico-legal aspects of oral surgery

For Year 1 and Year 2 students, there will be a written exam at the end of each term.

In addition to the above, at the end of Year 2, students will also have oral exams in June and in August/September.

Successful completion of the first two years of the programme will allow students to proceed to Year 3 of the programme. In Year 3, students will present the following:

a) a clinical governance project b) a systematic review of a topic related to Oral Surgery c) two fully documented patient case presentations d) two unseen (diagnostic) cases will also form part of this examination

The third year of the DClinDent programme will be structured over three semesters and during this time the student will be timetabled to four protected academic sessions each week with the remaining time dedicated to primarily independent clinical practice and inter-disciplinary patient management.

Year 1 courses:

1. Basic science in relation to oral surgery
2. Clinical knowledge 1
3. Oral Surgery - Clinical Patient Care 1
4. Pathology of the Oral and Dental Tissues
5. Research Methodology, Statistics, Clinical Governance and Audit
6. Resuscitation and Management of Emergencies
7. The NHS

Year 2 courses:

1. Clinical knowledge 2
2. Oral Surgery - Clinical Patient Care 2
3. Dissertation
4. Systemic disease in relation to Oral Surgery
5. Management of Pain and Anxiety

Year 3 courses:

1. Systematic Review
2. Clinical Governance Project
3. Specialist-Level Clinical Case-Reports
4. Clinical Patient Care 3