Learning Objectives:

After attending, participants should have basic knowledge and experience to:

• Apply proper case selection to determine which extractions can be managed in a general practice setting versus referred.
• Develop treatment plans for and perform extractions of single and multiple erupted teeth.
• Understand and utilize basic extraction instrumentation.
• Manage basic extraction-related complications.
• Diagnose and treatment plan inferior alveolar nerve position using Cone Beam CT scanning.

About the Course Instructor:

Dr. Dipa Patel is a native of the Washington area. She is board certified in oral and maxillofacial surgery by the ABOMS (American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery). She went to UVA for her undergraduate and University of Maryland for her dental school. Her oral surgery training was at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Patel actively participates in trauma call at the Virginia Hospital and Medstar Hospital Centers. She has owned and operated her solo practice in Arlington and Washington DC since 2012. She actively participates in oral and maxillofacial trauma, orthognathic surgery, dentoalveolar surgery including anesthesia. She is a delegate to the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons as well as the VDA, and serves on the Council on Governmental Affairs for AAOMS.

The Northern Virginia Dental Society is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. See each course description for the number of continuing education credits designated by the Northern Virginia Dental Society.