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Module 3 Objectives:

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• Buccal Plate Fractures: List causes, prevent their occurrence, and manage them when they happen.
• Bone Chips: Identify causes, avoid creating or leaving them, and manage bone chips appropriately.
• Bleeding Types: Differentiate capillary, venous, and arterial bleeding.
• Hemostasis: Control intraoperative bleeding using local and hemostatic measures.
• Pain: Define postoperative pain and understand its etiology.
• Dry Socket: Identify causes, diagnose accurately, and treat confidently.
• Post-Op Infections: List causes and manage most postoperative infections.
• Edema vs Infection: Discern between postoperative edema and infection; apply strategies to limit edema.
• Liver Clots: Recognize liver clots, understand why they form, and resolve them.
• Hematomas: State causes and manage/limit their extent when they develop.
• Adjacent Teeth: Avoid damaging neighbouring teeth and manage iatrogenic injuries appropriately.
• Wound Dehiscence: Describe why dehiscence forms and manage it to full resolution.
• Tissue Tears: Avoid tearing flaps or tissue; manage torn tissue when it occurs.
• Healing Timeline: Recall the expected timeline for normal extraction-site healing.
• Trismus: Describe trismus and understand its causes and management.
• Burns & Avulsive Injuries: State causes and treat these tissue injuries.
• Puncture Injuries: Prevent or limit puncture injuries and manage them when they occur.
• Sequestra: Recognize mylohyoid ridge sequestrum and explain/ manage lingual bony sequestra.
• Broken Instruments: Identify causes of broken instruments and manage breakage safely.