Oral surgery. Diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment planning considerations.

The surgical management of a patient begins at the moment of presentation for treatment and does not end until the problem is resolved and health restored. Alternatively, referral may be good management in some cases. Any procedure accomplished along the way is but one event in the course of overall surgical management.

Life-threatening infection after extraction of third molars.

Life-threatening infection after the extraction of the right maxillary and mandibular third molars, and the minimal early treatment of the ensuing complications, has been described. Perhaps, if proper incision and drainage and adequate antibiotic treatment had been instituted immediately after extraction, the ensuing complications could have been avoided. There will never be total agreement regarding the optimal time to surgically remove a tooth.

The organization of the Department of Defense in relation to the administration of the armed forces dental services in the United States.

In 1947 the organization that became the Department of Defense was established. During the ensuing years the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Environment (ASD (H & E)) evolved. On the staff of the Assistant Secretary (H & E) is a Special Assistant for Dental Affairs.