CF- Exodontia

Question 1

Where should you begin your incision for mucuperiosteal flap?

Answer 1

• Incision starts 1 Tooth Width Away from Root / Tooth
• Incision in Gingival Crevice
• Avoid Inter-Dental Papilla

Question 2

What are the 3 types of haemorrhage?

Answer 2

• Primary: During/immediately after extraction. Due to infection or trauma to blood vessels.
• Reactionary (within 48 hours): After the vasoconstrictor effect of local anaesthesia wears off (3 hrspost op). Usually due to underlying systemic conditions such as bleeding or clotting disorders.
• Secondary (around 7 days post-op): Rare and mainly due to secondary infection.

Question 3

How do you arrest soft tissue haemorrhage?

Answer 3

• Pressure
• Artery forceps
• Ligatures
• Packing
• Posture
• Electrocoagulation

Question 4

How do you arrest bone haemorrhage?

Answer 4

• Burnishing
• Packing
• Bone wax
• Oxidised cellulose

Question 5

How do you use couplands elevators?

Answer 5

• Wedge to Dilate Socket
• Used as a Pully Lever

Question 6

How do you use Warwick-James Elevator?

Answer 6

• Engage Root Mesially, Distally or Buccally
• Rotate to lift Root from Socket

Question 7

How do you use Cryer’s Elevators

Answer 7

• Superior Mechanical Advantage
• Apply to Molar Tooth Bifurcation
• Remove Inter-Radicular Bone

Question 8

What are characteristics of acute alveolar osteitis?

Answer 8

• Also called Dry Socket
• Early Loss of Blood Clot
• Exposed Bone
• Acutely Painful
• Infective Aetiology
• Decreased Blood Supply
• Smoking / LA