The new patient; general patient management; problems relating to certain systemic conditions; emergencies in oral surgery; prescribing for certain common conditions or needs in oral surgery; the operating room, instruments and the surgical team; surgical principles and technique; extraction of teeth and roots; extraction of unerupted teeth; complications of tooth extraction; preparation of the mouth for dentures, J.W.Frame; treatment of surgical infections about the face; treatment of cysts of the mouth; treatment of fractured jaws; considerations in the treatment of tumours of the mouth; treatment of surgical conditions of the salivary glands, J.M.Symington; the temporomandibular joint, P.D.Rothwell; occlusion and facial disharmony.