OMFS books

[dida]

Hi can anyone recommend me some usefull books for OMFS residency?

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[Yah-E]

I'm not in an OMFS residency yet, but from my externships experiences I've gathered the following:

General reference books:

1) Maxwell pocket reference
2) Tarascon Pharmacopeia
3) Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Secrets (Abubaker)
- great Q&A format and great books in you get pimped
- I've used this book even for my OMFS pre-doc courses

4) Clinician's Manual of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Kwon)
- great book for intern year and/or for an extern, it has examples of all the notes (admitting, pre-op, post-op, progress etc.) that you will encounter in the hospital.
- great reference book in general, but a bit bulky

5) Peterson's Principals of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Miloro)
- 2nd Edition, two volume set, great illustrations
- very expensive set
- great set to have for references to scope of practice in OMFS since pretty much all the OMFS directors in the country are contributory writers

6) Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Peterson)
- Pre-doc textbook with basic principles to OMFS
- every dental student I talk to, we all use this book in our pre-doc OMFS courses

OMFS Anatomy books:

1) Surgical Approaches to the Facial Skeleton (Ellis - no longer in print)
- great H&N anatomy illustrations associated with surgeries
- used and recommended during my Univ. of MN externship

2) Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck (Parviz)
3) Anatomy for Surgeons: The Head and Neck (Hollinshead)
- both books are still in print
- both books recommended during my LSUHSC externship
- Hollinshead may be more popular and recommended than the Parviz book

OMFS Pathology books:

1) Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology: A Rational for Treatment (Marx)
- rated the best oral pathology book available by our Oral Path faculties
- very expensive book

2) Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (Neville)
- Pre-doc textbook with great illustrations
- pretty much all dental school use this textbook for pre-doc oral path courses
- great substitute if you can't afford the Marx's oral path book above

As you can see, this is a great list of OMFS books. I have some of the above, but some I don't. As for which book is better during and/or for OMFS residency, I'm sure all the current OMFS residents on SDN can enlighten us. Further, I'm sure there are other great reference books for OMFS residencies that are not mentioned here where I hope some of the OMFS residents on SDN will share.

Good Luck in match! 👍

 

[1-16-17-32]

Does anyone have any reccomendations as to what areas I should focus on and start reading up on? I will be a first year OMFS resident next year.

I'm not in an OMFS residency yet, but from my externships experiences I've gathered the following:

General reference books:

1) Maxwell pocket reference
2) Tarascon Pharmacopeia
3) Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Secrets (Abubaker)
- great Q&A format and great books in you get pimped
- I've used this book even for my OMFS pre-doc courses

4) Clinician's Manual of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Kwon)
- great book for intern year and/or for an extern, it has examples of all the notes (admitting, pre-op, post-op, progress etc.) that you will encounter in the hospital.
- great reference book in general, but a bit bulky

5) Peterson's Principals of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Miloro)
- 2nd Edition, two volume set, great illustrations
- very expensive set
- great set to have for references to scope of practice in OMFS since pretty much all the OMFS directors in the country are contributory writers

6) Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Peterson)
- Pre-doc textbook with basic principles to OMFS
- every dental student I talk to, we all use this book in our pre-doc OMFS courses

OMFS Anatomy books:

1) Surgical Approaches to the Facial Skeleton (Ellis - no longer in print)
- great H&N anatomy illustrations associated with surgeries
- used and recommended during my Univ. of MN externship

2) Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck (Parviz)
3) Anatomy for Surgeons: The Head and Neck (Hollinshead)
- both books are still in print
- both books recommended during my LSUHSC externship
- Hollinshead may be more popular and recommended than the Parviz book

OMFS Pathology books:

1) Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology: A Rational for Treatment (Marx)
- rated the best oral pathology book available by our Oral Path faculties
- very expensive book

2) Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (Neville)
- Pre-doc textbook with great illustrations
- pretty much all dental school use this textbook for pre-doc oral path courses
- great substitute if you can't afford the Marx's oral path book above

As you can see, this is a great list of OMFS books. I have some of the above, but some I don't. As for which book is better during and/or for OMFS residency, I'm sure all the current OMFS residents on SDN can enlighten us. Further, I'm sure there are other great reference books for OMFS residencies that are not mentioned here where I hope some of the OMFS residents on SDN will share.

Good Luck in match! 👍

 

[north2southOMFS]

To start I would by the Neville and Damm path book because the marx book is too expensive, plus it is "Path according to Marx". I wouldn't buy the Miloro edited Peterson 2 vol. book because it is too expensive, just find someone with it and burn the Cd that came with it, the entire book is on the CD, just print off chapters as needed. I would also maybe get a good internal medicine book or/and general path(like the robbins one) because your first year people will be sent to your clinic with all sorts of strange diseases and syndromes that you won't have a clue about. Other than that Just review your basic OS anatomy and techniques, you'll have plenty of time in residency to learn the rest.

 

[tx oms]

Does anyone have any reccomendations as to what areas I should focus on and start reading up on? I will be a first year OMFS resident next year.

Read the single volume Peterson's Contemporary OMS cover-to-cover, even the stuff you think you know. Review head and neck anatomy. Review odontogenic infections--the offending bugs, the treatment, and the anatomical spaces involved.

Your biggest focus should be trauma. Read Contemporary OMS first, but also look up suturing technique in a surgical or plastic surgery book--even if you think you know it already. You need to know how to examine a trauma victim, how to sew lacerations, how to deal with dentoalveolar trauma, how to stabilize a mid-face trauma patient, and you need to learn as much as possible about mandible fractures. It is also a good idea to familiarize yourself with ATLS protocol--know what happens to a major trauma victim from the time the abulance arrives until the trauma surgeon consults you. Everything I listed can be found in Fonseca's two volume set (not the larger 8 volume set) on oral surgery trauma. If you library doesn't have the Fonseca set it will be hard to find as the new edition is in the works (I hear) and the old edition is hard to locate.

I wouldn't worry about pathology. What you already know will suffice for know. About the only thing people will ask an intern regarding path is differential diagnosis based on radiographic/clinical appearance. Take your licks on this subject b/c trauma will help you much more on a day to day basis.