Pearls and Pitfalls in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

​Dr. Dina Amin, DDS, FACS, Dr. Dina Amin is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Residency Program Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Eastman Institute of Oral Health. Dr. Amin earned her Dental Degree at King Abdul-Aziz University, which is the only internationally accredited dental school by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA). She obtained her residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Saudi Arabia. Dr. Amin had 2 years of fellowships from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her 1st fellowship in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery with a concentration in Orthognathic Surgery and Obstructive Sleep Apnea was at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham Alabama. To complete her surgical training, she completed a 2nd fellowship in Head and Neck Oncologic and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham Alabama. In 2016, Dr. Amin joined Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta Georgia as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. At Emory University, she served as the Associate Chief of Service, the Director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery clinic, and the Co-Director of the Craniomaxillofacial Surgery Center of Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta Georgia. Dr. Amin is credited for introducing Head and Neck Oncology, Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, and Computer-assisted Navigation for complex Craniomaxillofacial Trauma to Emory University. She worked briefly at Texas A&M University and Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, Texas before joining the University of Rochester. Her primary research evolved from her interests in Craniomaxillofacial Trauma, Head and Neck Pathology, and Reconstruction. Dr. Amin has received intramural and international grants and was the Principal Investigator of an orbital trauma clinical trial. She is the author of more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 13 book chapters. Dr. Hisham Marwan, DDS, FACS , is an Asscoaite Professor and Division Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Marwan completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Hospital in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He completed two years of fellowship training in Oral/Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Surgery. In 2018, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Marwan is double board-certified in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral, Head, and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Marwan has authored several manuscripts in Head and Neck Oncology, Reconstruction, and Craniomaxillofacial trauma. In addition, he authored multiple book chapters and co-edited a major textbook in Trauma.

• SECTION 1: Pearls and pitfalls in dentoalveolar surgery.- Chapter 1: Limitations and Indications of Coronectomy.- Chapter 2: How To Avoid Injury to The Lingual Nerve.- Chapter 3: Practical Tips for The Surgical Management of Impacted Canine.- Chapter 4: Practical Tips for Full Arch Dental Implant Reconstruction.- Chapter 5: How to Avoid Shortened Arch Length in Maxillary Full Arch Implant                          Rehabilitation.- Chapter 6: Practical Tips for Alveolar Ridge Augmentation.- SECTION 2: Anesthesia:.- Chapter 7:  Practical tips for managing pediatric anesthesia.- Chapter 8:  Managing difficult sedations.- Chapter 9: Exparel: limitation of non-opioid analgesic pain management.- SECTION 3: Craniomaxillofacial Trauma.- Chapter 10: Minimizing complications in tracheostomy and cricothyrotomy.- Chapter 11: Practical tips for open reduction of mandibular subcondylar fracture.- Chapter 12: Pearls and pitfalls in endoscopic ORIF of mandibular subcondylar fracture.- Chapter 13: Pearls and pitfalls in orbital fracture repair.- Chapter 14: Practical tips for surgical management of Naso-Orbito-Ethmoidal (N.O.E.) fracture.- Chapter 15: Pearls and pitfalls for surgical management of pan facial fractures.- Chapter 16: Pearls and pitfalls for the reconstruction of gunshot injuries to the face.- Chapter 17: Pearls and Pitfalls in the management of Post-traumatic facial deformities SECTION 4: Head and neck pathology.- Chapter 18: PEARLS AND PITFALLS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND  MANAGEMENT OF VASCULAR LESIONS.- Chapter 19: PEARLS AND PITFALLS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMELOBLASTOMA.- Chapter 20: HOW TO AVOID ODONTOGENIC KERATOCYST (OKC) RECURRENCE.- Chapter 21: Preoperative Workup of Oral Cavity Cancer.- Chapter 22: INTRAOPERATIVE DECISIONS FOR ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA MANAGEMENT.- Chapter 23: Practical tips in neck management: elective and therapeutic neck dissection.- Chapter 24: PRACTICAL TIPS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE N0 NECK – SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY.- Chapter 25: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR MANAGING CRANIAL NERVES XI, XII, AND GREATER AURICULAR NERVE IN NECK DISSECTION.- Chapter 26: Practical Tips for the Management of the Advanced Head and Neck Infection.- Chapter 27: Practical tips for performing Sialendoscopy.- SECTION 5: Head and neck reconstruction.- Chapter 28: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR PECTORALIS MAJOR MYOCUTANEOUS  FLAP.- Chapter 29: SUBMENTAL ARTERY ISLAND PERFORATOR FLAP: TECHNIQUE, PEARLS, AND PITFALLS.- Chapter 30: Pearls and pitfalls of supraclavicular flap.- Chapter 31: PRINCIPLES OF MICROVASCULAR SURGERY.- Chapter 32: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR HARVESTING RADIAL FOREARM FREE FLAP.- Chapter 33: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR HARVESTING MICROVASCULAR          FIBULA FLA.- Chapter 34: Pearls and Pitfalls in Anterolateral Free Flap Harvest.- Chapter 35: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR DEEP CIRCUMFLEX ILIAC ARTERY FREE FLAP.- Chapter 36: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR HARVESTING SCAPULA.- OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP.- Chapter 37: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR HARVESTING LATISSIMUS DORSI FREE FLAP.- SECTION 6: Temporomandibular surgery.- Chapter 38: HOW TO PERFORM ARTHROCENTESIS.- Chapter 39: PEARLS & PITFALLS OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT ARTHROSCOPY.- Chapter 40: Pearl and Pitfalls of Total Joint Replacement of the Temporomandibular Joint.- Chapter 41: Pearl's and pitfalls in Botox injections for TMD.- SECTION 7: Facial Cosmetic surgery.- Chapter 42: INJECTABLE SOFT TISSUE FILLERS AND THEIR USE IN FACIAL REJUVENATION.- Chapter 43: FACIAL LASER SKIN RESURFACING IN FACIAL COSMETIC SURGERY.- Chapter 44: How to perform blepharoplasty .- Chapter 45: Pearls and Pitfalls of Facelift SurgerySECTION 8: Obstructive sleep apnea.- Chapter 46: DRUG-INDUCED SLEEP ENDOSCOPY.- Chapter 47: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR PHARYNGOPLASTY PROCEDURE.- Chapter 48: PEARLS AND PITFALLS IN THE PREOPERATIVE PLANNING FOR MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR ADVANCEMENT.- Chapter 49: HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE STIMULATOR.- Chapter 50: Practical tips for hyoid suspension surgery.- SECTION 9: Craniofacial and Orthognathic surgery.- Chapter 51: Minimizing the risk of complications in sagittal split osteotomies.- Chapter 52: HOW TO AVOID COMPLICATIONS IN LE-FORT 1 OSTEOTOMY.- Chapter 53: PEARLS AND PITFALLS IN MULTI-PIECE MAXILLARY.- OSTEOTOMY AUTHOR.- Chapter 54: PEARLS AND PITFALLS OF THE INTRAORAL VERTICAL OSTEOTOMY.- Chapter 55: PEARLS AND PITFALLS IN PEDIATRIC MANDIBULAR DISTRACTION.