Elective Skills in Facial Trauma

By the end of this course, you will have: Appropriately used advanced surgical access techniques; appropriately performed secondary reconstructive techniques including eyelid management, nasolacrimal duct repair, mid-face suspension, and scar revision; treatment planned the whole spectrum of soft and hard tissue facial trauma, both acute and revision; systematically assessed orthoptic investigations; systematically and critically assessed CT scan images with respect to treatment planning of all facial injuries; and a detailed understanding of neurosurgical management as it pertains to facial trauma.

Convenor

Mr Simon Holmes

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
St Bartholomew's Hospital

Level

The course is aimed at ST 1-6 in OMFS, ENT, Plastic, Ophthalmoplogy and Neurosurgery

Content

• Surgical approaches to the craniofacial skeleton
  
• Diagnosis and treatment planning complex facial injuries
  
• Diagnosis and treatment planning secondary revision cases
  
• Aesthetic techniques including syntheic onlay and misface suspension
  
• Surgical access using cadavers
  
• Orbital access inc lid splitting
  
• Craniofacial access, including craniotomy
  
• Demonstration of Endoscopic assisted medical orbital wall repair
  
• TMJ access, Lag screw techniques
  
• Scar revision techniques
  

Format

• Lectures
  
• Interactive discussions
  
• Hands-on workshop
• 2:1 Participant to faculty ratio