Abstract
Oral surgery plays an important role in any preventive dentistry program. Timely, sound, conservative oral surgical procedures are indicated to prevent untoward results, unnecessary complications, and needless mutilation in the eradication of oral disease. Oral surgery procedures based on time-tested surgical principles contribute greatly to the comfort, health, and well-being of the patient. The contributions of oral surgery to preventive dentistry may be summarized as follows: (a) prevention of errors in therapy due to improper diagnosis; (b) prevention of major surgical problems developing from minor surgical problems; (c) prevention of operative and postoperative complications; (d) prevention of adverse reactions to local anesthetics; (e) prevention of postoperative hemorrhage; (f) prevention of minimizing prosthetic failures; (g) prevention of psychological and functional problems associated with facial deformities and injuries; (h) prevention of death, by early diagnosis of oral malignancies; and (i) prevention of leukoplakia and erythroplasia from progressing into serious lesions.
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