The curriculum covers oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) including topics like oral surgery procedures, trauma management, anesthesia techniques, and basic sciences. Specific areas of focus include dentoalveolar surgery, cysts and tumors, infections, pre-prosthetic surgery, orthognathic surgery, TMJ disorders, implant surgery, and management of medically complex patients. Students receive lectures, seminars and hands-on training in topics like exodontia, anesthesia administration, OMFS procedures, and emergency management under faculty supervision. The two-year program is approved by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and aims to produce competent oral and maxillofacial surgeons.

1. CURRICULUM OF OMFS PROGRAMME
I. ORAL SURGERY
1. ARMAMENTARIUMAND INSTRUMENTATIONS
2. ANATOMICALCONSIDERATIONSOF HEADANDNECKINCLUDING ARTERIES, VEINS,
MUSCLES ANDBONES
3. DENTOALVEOLARSURGERY
4. PRINCIPLESOFEXTRACTION (SIMPLEAND COMPLICATED)
5. IMPACTED TEETH
6. CYSTS OF HEAD ANDNECK
7. BENIGN AND MALIGNANTTUMORS OFHEAD ANDNECK
8. ODONTOGENICINFECTIONSINCLUDINGOSTEOMYELITIS,CAVERNOUSSINUS THROMBOSIS,
INTRACRANIALABCSESS, ORBITALCELLULITIS,MEDIASTINITIS,OBSTRUCTION OFAIRWAY
PASSAGE, LUDWIG’S ANGINA
9. FACIALSPACESINFECTION
10. PRE-PROSTHETICSURGERY INCLUDINGALVEOLOPLASTYANDRIDGE AUGMENTATION AND
MANDIBULAR AUGMWNTATION,SOFTTISSUES ABNORMALITIES,LABIALFRENECTOMY,
LINGUAL FRENECTOMY, TORUS PALATINUSANDTORUS MANDIBULARISREMOVAL, ETC.
11. ORTHOGNATHICSURGERIES
12. TRAUMA INCLUDING:
A. FRACTURE OF MAXILLA (LEFORT I,LEFORT II,LEFORT III)
B. MANDIBULAR FRACTURES
C. ZYGOMATIC FRACTURES
D. NASALBRONEFRACTURE
E. ORBITALBRONE FRACTURE
F. OPEN AND CLOSED REDUCTION AND IMF
G. TRANSOSSEUSWIRING
H. MAXILLARY TUBEROSITY FRACTURE
13. SALIVARYGLANDSURGERY INCLUDINGRANULA
14. MAXILLARY SINUS
A. ACUTE AND CHRONICMAXILLARYSINUSITIS
B. OROANTHRALFISTULA
C. ROOTS ANDTOOTH INSIDETHE SINUS
D. NASALANTROSTOMY
E. CALDWELL-LUC OPERATION
F. MAXILLARY SINUSLESIONS
15. TEMPRO-MANDIBULARJOINTDISORDERS ANDSURGERIES INCLUDING CONDILECTOMY
16. PAIN
17. PRINCIPLESOFSURGERY INCLUDINGFLAPSTOOTH SECTIONING,BONEREMOVAL,
DEBRIDEMENT, SUTURING ANDPOST-OPERATIVECARE
18. MEDICO-LEGAL IN ORALANDMAXILLOFACIAL

2. 19. STERILIZATION ANDINFECTION CONTROL
20. MANAGEMENT OF MEDICALLY COMPROMISED PATIENTSINCLUDINGCARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE,ENDOCRINEDISEASES,RESPIRATORYDISEASES,LIVERDISEASES,RENALDISEASES,
CEREBROVASCULARACCIDENT,PREGNANCY,PATIENTSUNDERRADIATION THERAPYAND
AIDS
21. PRINCIPLESOFTRANSALVEOLAREXTRACTION
22. CLEFT LIP ANDPALATE
23. IMPLANTSURGERY AND TREATMENT OF COMPLICATIONS
II. LOCAL AND GENERAL ANAESTHESIA
1. PHARMACOLOGYOF LOCAL ANAESTHETICS
2. COMPLICATIONSOFLOCALANAESTHETICS
3. MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
4. INJECTION TECHNIQUESOF MAXILLARY ANDMANDIBULARNERVES INCLUDING
-INFERIORALVEOLARNERVEBLOCK
-GOW-GATESTECHNIQUES
-AKINOSICLOSED-MOUTHMANDIBULARBLOCK
- POSTERIOR-SUPERIORALVEOLARNERVEBLOCK
- ANTERTIORANDMIDDLE SUPERIOR ALVEOLARNERVEBLOCK(INFRA-ORBITAL
INJCETION)
-GREATER PALATINENERVEBLOCK
-NASO-PALATINENERVEBLOCK
-MAXILLARYNERVE BLOCK(HIGH TUBEROSITY APPROACH ANDGREATER PALATINE
APPROACH)
III. BASIC SCIENCEKNOWLEDGERELEVANTTO SURGICAL PRACTICE
1. PHYSIOLOGY
2. GERIATRIC SURGERY
3. ORAL PATHOLOGY
4. ORAL HISTOLOGY
5. ORAL RADIOLOGY
6. MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
7. SPECIAL NEEDS DENTISTRY
THE ABOVEMENTIONEDARE THE SUMMARY OF LECTURES, SEMINARS, HANDSON PRACTICE/DUNDER
THE SUPERVISION OFCONSULTANTSINCESEPTEMBER 2010 UP TO PRESENT
THIS OMFS PROGRAMME ISAPPROVEDBY RCS EDIN.
KINDREGARDS,
DR. HANIMOHAMED