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All You Need to Know about Third Molar Surgery
Minor Oral Surgery Workshop
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Thursday, 9 March 2023 (Pre-congress) Shangri-La Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu
08:00 – 17:00
Impacted wisdom teeth is a disorder where the third
molars are prevented from erupting into the oral cavities. Prof. Dr. David Ngeow
Partially erupted wisdom teeth can lead to development
BDS (Malaya), FFDRCSIreland (O.S), FDSRCS (Eng),
of cavities or pericoronitis. Removal of the impacted MDSc (Malaya), PhD (Sheffield), FAMM, FICOI
wisdom tooth is advised in such cases through minor oral Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Clinical Sciences,
surgery. However, dental practitioners may find Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya.
performing minor oral surgery to be of certain challenge.
This is due to the concern of damaging the vital structures
during the procedure. In line with this concern, this Dr. David Ngeow is currently a professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at
the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Malaya. He graduated from
workshop is designed to equip dental practitioners with the University of Malaya in 1992 and was a private practitioner for 9
skill on identifying the vital structures through radiography. months before he was offered the post of tutorship at his alma matter.
Three years later, he became a Senior House Officer at the Queen Victoria
The workshop will discuss in depth on surgical techniques Hospital in East Grinstead, England, where he obtained his Fellowship in
and prevention tips to avoid damaging the vital structures Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the
Royal College of Surgeons of England. He subsequently returned to
during the procedure. All participants will be able to
Malaysia and was a pioneer lecturer at the then newly established
perform simulated surgery on a specially printed jaw. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He later became a lecturer at the
University of Malaya in 2000. He has been running implant courses in
Malaysia since 2012. He has published 198 papers in local and
6 CPD Points international journals, and was the Editor of the Malaysian Dental Journal
from 2005-2007 and the Editor of the MDA Newsletter for 2015. He is
Pending Approval currently the Editor of the Malaysia Dental Journal. His research interests
are craniofacial anthropometry, variations of the mandibular nerve, and
recovery of peripheral nerves after microsurgical repair.
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