Fonseca OMS text

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Has anyone previewed/reviewed/edited the new upcoming Fonseca OMS text? I was about to order the 1st edition, multi-volume set, which is supposed to be required text for my upcoming residency. It seems the upcoming edition is a three volume set...condensed, thicker per volume, better edited? Either way, it seems I would need to wait for the new edition since the older one is limited in supply and very expensive. Just a little bored with residency starting soon...😀 For those who own the 7-volume set, has the set been your primary reference text during residency?

 

[rrc]

Has anyone previewed/reviewed/edited the new upcoming Fonseca OMS text? I was about to order the 1st edition, multi-volume set, which is supposed to be required text for my upcoming residency. It seems the upcoming edition is a three volume set...condensed, thicker per volume, better edited? Either way, it seems I would need to wait for the new edition since the older one is limited in supply and very expensive. Just a little bored with residency starting soon...😀

If you are anxious to start learning OMS for your residency starting in July, I would suggest making sure you know all of the fundamentals and concepts presented in your undergrad OMS text. Especially dentoalveolar. For me it was the Peterson book. It would also be really helpful to familiarize yourself with some basic hospital protocol. Meaning how you take a patient from admission to discharge and all the steps in between. This will probably be one of the most beneficial things you can do. If you accomplish this, then I would say start learning a little bit about trauma and pathology. Find out which plating system your hospital uses and learn about arch bars and IMF. Learn the different plating techniques, rationale, etc.

Think of it this way. If you are starting residency and push a palatal root into the sinus, it would look much better if you said to your attending "Sir, the root became displaced into the sinus through the extremely thin apical bone. I plan on attempting removal through the extraction site with some gentle irrigation and suction. If this does not work then I can perform a caldwell luc antrostomy in the lateral maxilla to retrieve the root tip. I estimate its size to be 6-7 mm."

This is better than sweating profusely with a scared look on your face and your pants filling with a smelly brown substance. Plus, if you can handle the simple things then they will be willing to teach you and let you do the more complex procedures. No one expects you to be able to anastamose a free fibular flap in your first week.

I forgot to mention - no matter how much you know or think you know, remember, you will still get treated like a dog and nothing you say or do will be correct. Just be prepared to be criticized and yelled at - a lot. It is nothing personal. For some reason that is just how interns are treated!

 

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When is this new version going to come out? The version out now is a 2 volume set so I'm confused when you say the 3 volume set is a condensed version. Can you clarify? Thanks.

 

[IcedOMFS]

When is this new version going to come out? The version out now is a 2 volume set so I'm confused when you say the 3 volume set is a condensed version. Can you clarify? Thanks.

You are confused because you don't know what you are talking about.

The 2-volume fonseca is on Trauma:

http://www.amazon.com/Oral-Maxillof...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207802165&sr=8-1

When people refer to "Fonseca," most mean the 7-volume set that came out in 2000.

http://www.amazon.com/Oral-Maxillof...metic/dp/0721696376/ref=cm_lmf_tit_10_rsrsrs0

There is a new edition of the 7 volume set coming out in the fall, only it will be 3 volumes, not 7:

http://www.amazon.com/Oral-Maxillof...=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207802165&sr=8-7

 

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Cool deal. Thanks for the input. I've actually read many parts of the undergrad Peterson's a few times and glanced through the 2 vol set. My question was more focused on the Fonseca set itself, which every OMS I know seems to own. I've personally never even set my eyes on the real thing, but if it's a 7 volume set, it's got to cover just about everything...