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If a dental practitioner performs surgery, he or she will have complications. This chapter will describe the evaluation and management of the most common surgical complications that might occur when performing dentoalveolar surgery.

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

Sherlock Holmes in—The Hound of the Baskervilles

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  1. Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT, USA

    Christine Niekrash & Michael T. Goupil

  2. Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Emeritus Faculty, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA

    Michael T. Goupil

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  2. Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA

    Michael T. Goupil

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Niekrash, C., Goupil, M.T. (2019). Surgical Complications. In: Ferneini, E., Goupil, M. (eds) Evidence-Based Oral Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91361-2_11

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