Fri 02 May 2025 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Oral Surgery: flap design, suturing, socket preservation, and other fundamental skills in general practice
Gain hands-on skills in oral surgery focusing on fundamental surgical skills.
You will learn:
- Different flap design – theory, and hands-on on a pig’s jaws with teeth
- Surgical access, sectioning, and extraction
- Basic suturing skills including interrupted, horizontal and vertical mattress, continuous and locking sutures
- How to utilise your assistant to help with procedures
- How to undertake socket preservation
Presented by Dr Sophia Richardson
CPD hours: 6 clinical hours
RSVP by 18/04/2025
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Schedule
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TIME |
SESSION |
SPEAKERS |
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8:30 am |
Registration |
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9:00 am |
Introduction to OMS Flap Design |
Dr Sophia Richardson |
|
11:00 am |
Morning Tea |
|
|
11:15 am |
Surgical Extraction |
Dr Sophia Richardson |
|
1:00 pm |
Lunch |
|
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1:45 pm |
Suturing |
Dr Sophia Richardson |
|
3:15 pm |
Socket preservation |
|
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4:30 pm |
Close |
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Speakers
Dr Sophia Richardson 
Dr Sophia Richardson is a Melbourne-trained oral and maxillofacial surgeon, with international experience. She obtained her dental and medical degrees at the University of Melbourne, then completed oral and maxillofacial surgery training in Victoria (2011).
Dr Richardson chose to further subspecialise in orthognathic surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (2012), and was appointed Clinical Fellow at The Oxford University Hospitals Trust, UK (2013-2014).
Dr Richardson is currently in private practice in Fitzroy North, at Queens Parade Specialists; and shares rooms with her husband who is a Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon, and an Oral Medicine Clinician.
