Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, AIMST University, Bedong, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India
J Maxillofac Oral Surg, 2014 Dec;13(4):609-11.
PMID: 26225037 DOI: 10.1007/s12663-013-0546-z

Abstract

Demonstrations and training on live-subjects are not always the optimal means of introducing the students to minor oral surgery. Hence, the use of teaching models permit the students to handle the surgical instruments in a limited field under a semi-realistic circumstance and also helps in developing psychomotor skills in an non stressed situation. One among the competent exercise in oral surgery is suturing. Though there exist a variety of commercially available suturing training models, cost factor restrain their acquirement in few units.

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