Biopsy City (may not be suitable for young nephews or weak stomachs)

Start reading from the bottom up =)

Send to the lab "stat"!

Final product. It even looks like the patient is smiling a little. =)

suturing

defective salivary gland removed, we're right about to close it.

Since we didn't have the lip clip, we had the patient (no gloves) peal back and steady his own lip while we operated. The blue gloves are me.

Here's another case that walk in about 3 days within the other guy.

Pt complains of an "infection" that comes and goes about once a week. It gets big then pops, then comes back. The patient said that others thought it was herpes, or an infection....

Turns out it was a mucocele.
Ps. You can see the points of inflitration for anesthesia.

Just shy of 1 cm. Not bad.

After the suture was placed.

It's unfortunate that i didn't take a picture of the site once the lesion was removed. You can see the striated muscle fibers of the buccinator. It was very cool.

I guess the pictures uploaded in reverse order so I'll just comment on each picture from bottom up.
This guy showed up saying that he's had this thing for a long time (over ten years) i'm not sure why he let it get this bad. His complaint was that he would bite it like once a day and it hurt.

For all the dentists out there: My first though was maybe the Stensen's duct was involved. Luckily it wasn't. The lesion is anterior to it. Turns out to be just an irritation fibroma.

PS. By the way. This is a picture of the inside of his left cheek.

It's not every day that a dentist gets to do these very cool surgeries. I'm totally glad that i was able to do them, which is in part is due to my stent here in Iraq.