A document outlines a pre-operative evaluation process for oral surgery procedures, including establishing a systematic approach through strategic patient interview questions, reviewing systems, and creating a medical problem list. Key parts of the evaluation are assessing the chief complaint, past medical history and compliance, medications, allergies, past dental history and complications, and health problem investigation. The evaluation aims to classify patients by ASA and FDA pregnancy categories prior to surgery.

1. Pre-operative Evaluation
for Oral Surgery Procedures
DR. Badr Al-Jandan , BDS, MSc (McGill), MRCSP(Glasgow), Dip. ABOMS, FRCD(c)
Adjunct Professor , McGill University, Montreal , Canada.
Assistant Professor, King Faisal university, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

2. Objectives
– Establish a systematic approach in assessing
patients prior to surgery
– Strategic patients interview questions
– Review of systems
– Establishing a medical problem list along with
there solutions .
– ASA classification
– FDA pregnancy categories

3. History
– Chief complaint
– PMH ( compliance)
– Meds
– Allergies
– PDH ( complications)
– HPI

11. Reference
• Handbook of Local Anesthesia by Stanley F.
Malamed (2004), part three, chapter 10.