Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Secrets

Dr. A. Omar Abubaker, DMD, PhD is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Dentistry, and he completed his residency training and a fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. He has been on the Faculty at VCU School of Dentistry and Medical Center since 1991. He is certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the American Board of Dental Anesthesiology. Dr. Abubaker serves as professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery School of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Dentistry, at MCV Hospital. He maintains a busy intramural private practice in oral and maxillofacial surgery. He is also actively involved in teaching dental students and oral and maxillofacial surgery residents. Dr. Abubaker authored two oral and maxillofacial surgery textbooks, over 100 chapters, over 50 peer- review scientific articles, and numerous abstracts and scientific presentations. Dr. Abubaker has recently become involved in education and research in the field of addiction and opioid epidemic and pain management.

• I PATIENT EVALUATION1. ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR SURGERY ROTATION?2. PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION3. ELECTROCARDIOGRAM4. LABORATORY TESTS5. DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING FOR THE ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY PATIENT6. ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY IN PANDEMIC: MEMORIES AND LESSONS FROM COVID-19II ANESTHESIA7. LOCAL ANESTHETICS8. INTRAVENOUS SEDATION9. INHALATION ANESTHESIA AND NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS10. CAPNOGRAPHY AND PULSE OXIMETRY11. ANESTHESIA FOR DIFFICULT PATIENTSIII PERIOPERATIVE CARE12. FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES13. NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT14. POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS15. INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL VENTILATION AND ICU CARE16. BASIC LIFE SUPPORT, ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT, AND ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT17. TRACHEOSTOMY AND CRICOTHYROTOMYIV MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE MEDICALLY-COMPROMISED18. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES19. RESPIRATORY DISORDERS20. MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LIVER DISEASES AND HEMATOLOGICAL DISEASES21. MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH RENAL DISEASES22. MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS OF PATIENTS WITH ENDOCRINE DISEASES AND PREGNANT PATIENTS23. MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT WITH DIABETES24. THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED SURGICAL PATIENT25. SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, ADDICTION, AND POSTOPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENTV ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY26. APPLIED OROFACIAL ANATOMY27. WOUND HEALING28. DENTOALVEOLAR SURGERY AND PREPROSTHETIC SURGERY29. DENTAL IMPLANTS30. TRIGEMINAL NERVE INJURY31. OROFACIAL INFECTIONS AND ANTIBIOTIC USE32. DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF DENTOALVEOLAR INJURIES33. MANDIBULAR TRAUMA34. MANAGEMENT OF ZYGOMATICOMAXILLARY COMPLEX AND ORBITAL FRACTURES35. MIDFACIAL FRACTURES36. FRONTAL SINUS FRACTURES37. MANAGEMENT OF SOFT TISSUE INJURIES38. CRANIOFACIAL SYNDROMES39. OROMANDIBULAR DYSOSTOSIS40. SYNDROMES AFFECTING THE OROFACIAL REGION41. CLEFT LIP AND PALATE42. ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY43. DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS44. SLEEP APNEA AND SNORING45. FACIAL PAIN AND MYOFASCIAL DISORDERS46. TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND SURGICAL TREATMENT47. ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL CYSTS AND TUMORS48. CANCER OF THE ORAL CAVITY49. SALIVARY GLAND DISEASES50. VASCULAR ANOMALIES51. OSTEORADIONECROSIS/OSTEONECROSIS OF THE JAWS52. NECK MASS53. BONE GRAFTING TO FACILITATE DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT54. LOCAL AND REGIONAL FLAPS55. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FACIAL SUBUNITS56. MICROVASCULAR SURGERYVI COSMETIC SURGERY57. EVALUATION OF THE AGING FACE58. COSMETIC BLEPHAROPLASTY59. RHYTIDECTOMY60. RHINOPLASTY61. MINIMAL-INVASIVE COSMETIC SURGERY62. COMPLICATIONS IN ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY63. THE BUSINESS SIDE OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE64. ETHICS IN ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY65. EVIDENCE-BASED SURGERYVII RESIDENT APPLICATION66. APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW PROCESS FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL S