If you choose to have archive logging, and do an online backup and roll forward recovery, you can recover to a point in time or to the end of the logs for the minimum loss of data.

A complete recovery is a recovery that involves rolling forward the logs to bring the database to the most current time with no lost of data.

You can either use a copy of your backup image and roll it forward to the time right before the table was dropped (point-in-time recovery), or you can restore a logical backup through the exp utility.