PART I: Patient management, preoperative planning, instruments and sterilization; Intraoral incisions and suturing; The removal of roots; Unerupted and impacted teeth; Surgical preparation of the mouth for dentures; Pyogenic infections of the soft tissues; Inflammatory diseases of bone; The control of infections; Sinusitis, oroantral fistula and the removal of a tooth or root from the maxillary sinus; Surgical endodontics; Cysts of the jaws; Soft tissue swellings of the oral mucosa; The diagnosis and management of orofacial pain; Drugs and oral surgery; Index; PART II: The case history; Clinical examination of a patient with a pain, a lump, or an ulcer; Some additional examinations carried out when investigating a lesion; The differential diagnosis of swellings of the neck; Skin incisions in oral surgery; The management of haemorrhage in oral surgery; Some non-malignant lesions in and around the jaws; Benign soft-tissue cysts; Giant-cell lesions of the jaws; The odontogenic tumours and odontomes; Histiocytosis 'X' and malignant neoplasms; Some skeletal diseases of interest to the oral surgeon; The major salivary glands; Diseases of the temporomandibular joint; Nerve injuries of interest to the oral surgeon; Some non-pyogenic infections of the soft tissues; The fungal diseases; The management of some of the foreign bodies seen in and around the jaws; Index.
