Handbook of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2026: Comprehensive Coverage Dentoalveolar Procedures, Facial Trauma, & Head-Neck Pathology for ABOMS Candidates

Quick flag before the copy: the brief you pasted is built around a geriatrics title - it references "young-adult guidelines applied to older patients," "missed delirium," "the prescribing cascade," "the fall that ends independence," and an audience of "geriatricians, internists, hospitalists... caring for older adults." None of that matches Handbook of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2026. I've kept your exact structure and tone rules but corrected every section to the actual OMFS content and the Surgical Crossroads System. Here is the Amazon-ready description: It is 2 a.m., the floor of the mouth is rising, the voice is muffled, and the airway will not wait for a consult. Hesitate at that fork - or reach wrong at the inferior alveolar canal, enucleate an ameloblastoma as if it were a cyst, or plate a midface before setting the occlusion - and a preventable complication follows you for years. > Inside this book: - Secure the airway before you lose it - recognize Ludwig's angina and choose the awake surgical airway when trismus rules out fiberoptic intubation. - Stop reflexively stopping anticoagulants - continue therapy for most extractions and control the socket from below. - Spare the nerve - read the warning signs, escalate to CBCT, and choose coronectomy over a lifelong paresthesia. - Let the occlusion be the reduction - set maxillomandibular fixation before you plate a single buttress. - Catch the white-eyed blowout - take the child with entrapment and bradycardia to theatre the same day. - Confirm before you resect - biopsy the multilocular lesion so you never enucleate an ameloblastoma. - Replace bone with bone - reconstruct the segmental mandible with a fibula, and read a failing flap in time to save it. Written for oral and maxillofacial surgery residents facing the OMSITE and board certification, practicing and board-eligible surgeons, dental graduates entering the specialty, and ENT and plastic surgery trainees managing facial disease. Open it before your next case, and commit to the confident, safe decision at every crossroads you meet.