Atlas of Wisdom Teeth Surgery, 1st ed. 2019

This atlas as a guidebook with twenty chapters covers the latest surgical techniques and clinical cases based on procedure-based approach. Each chapter consists of two to five sections providing detailed descriptions of the basic techniques of evaluation, diagnosis and treatment to allow immediate clinical application. Impacted wisdom teeth are divided into 5 major categories in three-dimensional structure detected by CBCT on the position and growth status of impacted teeth, which helps the classification of 6 degree of difficulty determination for the treatment and the time and surgery procedure needed for each degree.

About 1800 colour clinical photos and line drawings with case reports provided by dental expert surgeons and educators in this atlas offer detailed, procedure-based instructions, illustrations and approach that demonstrate how to plan for and perform wisdom teeth surgical procedures safely and efficiently for dentists and students  to manage the patients with wisdom teeth disorders.

Normal and Impacted Wisdom Teeth.- Factors Affecting Impacted Wisdom Teeth and their Mechanism.- Adjacent Relationship of Wisdom Teeth.- Resistance Classification of Wisdom Teeth.- Wisdom Teeth and Caused Disease.- Classification of Wisdom Teeth Growing Status.- Difficulty Determination of Wisdom Teeth Extraction.- Chapter Eight   X-Ray Technology of Wisdom Teeth.- Disinfection and Surgical Instruments.- Nitrous Oxide Sedation Method.- Painless Anaesthesia Methods.- Clinical Technology of Wisdom Teeth Extraction.- Therapeutic Extraction of Impacted Wisdom Teeth for Late Childhood.- Preserving and Available Operations on Wisdom Teeth.- Extraction of Maxillary Vertically Impacted  Wisdom Teeth.- Extraction of Maxillary Tilted Impacted Wisdom Teeth.- Extraction of Mandibular Mesioclinated Impacted Wisdom Teeth.- Extraction of Mandibular Mesio Vertical Impacted Wisdom Teeth.- Extraction of Mandibular Mesio Horizontal Impacted Wisdom Teeth.- Management for Complications During and in Post Operation.

Editor Dapeng Lu is a DDS and professor of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, at the Emergency Department, Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.