GDS Dental Academy: Shaping Your Proficiency with Practical Skills.

General Dentistry Courses in Delhi

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Comprehensive General Dentistry Courses in Delhi for Aspiring Dental Professionals

 

why choose gds dental academy for general dentistry course.

Are you looking to excel in the field of dentistry and acquire practical skills to establish a successful private practice? At our institute, we offer an unparalleled General Dentistry Course in Delhi that goes beyond conventional classroom learning. Our meticulously designed courses are aimed at honing your skills in clinical dentistry and preparing you for real-world challenges in a dental clinic setting.

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Why Choose Our General Dentistry Course?

  • Practical Learning for Real-World Challenges:

Our curriculum is tailored to provide hands-on experience in handling complex dental procedures, including root canal treatments, crown and bridge placements, extractions, restorations, and more.

  • Mentorship from Experienced Faculty:

Learn from our experienced faculty who work ethically and are dedicated to guiding you at every step of your dental career. Benefit from their extensive knowledge and practical insights.

  • Lifetime Support for Your Dental Journey:

With us, it’s not just about the course; it’s about a lifelong association. You can count on unparalleled support and guidance even after you’ve completed your education at our institute.

Courses Offered:

1. General Dentistry Course – 1 Month

  •  RCT – 15 patients
  •  Crown and bridge – 8 units
  •  Extractions – 5 patients
  •  Restorations – 10 patients
  •  Post and core treatment – 2 patients

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2. General Dentistry Course – 2 Months
( Free Implant Placement – 1 patient )

  • RCT – 30 patients
  •  Crown and bridge – 20 units
  •  Extractions – 12 patients
  •  Restorations – 20 patients
  • Post and core treatment – 5 patients
  • Crown lengthening and temporization – 1 patient
  • Suture on patient – 1 patient

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Enroll in our long-term clinical dentistry course to embark on a fulfilling and successful career in dentistry.

Learning Objectives:

Our comprehensive curriculum ensures that you achieve the following objectives:

  • Proficiently diagnose dental issues and create effective treatment plans.
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of various dental fields.
  • Develop effective communication skills to explain treatment plans to patients.
  • Master complex dental procedures, including RCT, crown placement, and more.
  • Learn the essentials of running an individual private dental practice.

In addition, our Ultimate General Dentistry Course equips you with advanced skills, such as implant placement, prosthesis design for implants, and fixed orthodontic treatment.

Course Content Overview:


The General Dentistry Course at GDS DENTAL ACADEMY is a comprehensive program that provides students with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the field of dentistry. The program is designed to give students practical experience in handling complex dental procedures, such as root canal treatments, crown and bridge placements, extractions, and restorations. Students will also learn from experienced faculty who are dedicated to guiding them at every step of their dental career. In addition, the institute offers lifetime support and guidance to help students achieve their professional goals.

The General Dentistry Course is available in three different durations: 1 month, 2 months, and Ultimate General Dentistry Course. The Ultimate General Dentistry Course is a longer and more comprehensive program that includes training in advanced skills such as implant placement, prosthesis design for implants, and fixed orthodontic treatment.

Become a proficient dental professional with our holistic and practical General Dentistry Course. Contact us today to kickstart your journey in the world of dentistry.

Osseo Integration

Osseo integration

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Have you ever thought that once implant is inserted to the bone then what changes could be seen in the bone? How many days it takes for the changes to appear or will this change affect our treatment or not?

Today we will talk about the basic science in implant on which whole implantology depends. Now, we will talk about OSSEO INTEGRATION.

The word OSSEO INTEGRATION suggests its meaning itself. OSSEO means BONES and INTEGRATE means BECOMING A PART.

When we insert implant in the bones, it develops bones around it due to which implant doesn’t move. But there is no connection between bone and implant. There is a slight gap between bone and implant. We have always tried our best to cover up this space.

So, actually OSSEO INTEGRATION means to develop bones around implant so that it can do its work.

So, let’s start and see how this bone develops around implant.

When we drill in bone for implant then a lot of process starts inside the bone and bone starts repairing osteotomy site which we call as bone healing.

 

There are three phases of bone healing –

First phase is Inflammatory phase which remains from 1-10 days.

Second phase is Proliferative phase and it remains from 3-42 days.

And third phase is Maturation phase which starts from 28 days.

If you focus then you will know that inflammatory phase and proliferative phase overlaps from 3rdday to 10thday. This is because there is no distinction of these phases and these changes can take place soon in some and late in some.

These stages only give us idea that what we expect on implant site and we can take clinical decision.

Now, let’s go in detail of this process.

As you know that continuous bone deposition and resorption goes on in the bone and maintains a balance.

But when our bone drill makes hole in the bone then this balance becomes bad. A blood vessel which is present in trabecular bone, it is ruptured and implant side becomes full from blood.

After doing Osteotomy we place implant. And this time implant is only mechanically stable. It means implant drill is a little smaller than implant size. Because of this implant becomes tight after going in implant bones and this is called primary stability.

And after this thousand of changes occur in bone and bone implant develops between the threads and implant becomes more stable which we call as secondary stability. This process is known OSSEO INTEGRATION.

Just after bone drill one of the changes that occur that is hemostasis and this starts in few minutes.

Blood comes out from blood vessels and it splits all over. Serum protein implant in blood deposits on surface and platelet deposits on broken blood vessels. Platelets, collagen and other proteins make blood clot and blood loss stops.

Now, these platelets send messenger so that other process of bone healing could start. Like PDGF, Throwboxane, TGF-A, TGF-B.

After this our first stage is inflammatory phase.

Immune cells come inside the implant site whose work is to clean unwanted things like – small bone fragments, oral bacteria which come inside with implant.

Monocytes, leucocytes and macrophage combines together to clean the wounds so that healthy process could start.

Now you should know that inflammatory phase is very important and that is why we should limit anti-inflammatory drugs and we should avoid steroids too. Because we want inflammation for proper integration. 

If you want to load implant then you should do it within 12 hours because in the next phase implant stability will be low.

Next stage is Proliferative phase which lasts from 3rd day to 42nd day.

Fibroblast comes in wound sites and they form a stabilizing matrix with the help of collagen and elastin.

Then, per-vascular cells start angio-generis and new blood vessels are formed on the wound site. After that osteo-cytes activate osteo-clast and osteo-clast is deposited on bone surface and bone starts resorption due to which primary stability decreases.

If implant fails then it fails in this stage only.

Then osteo-blast enters the wound site and new bone formation starts. The bones of this stage are un-mineralized and there is no strength in it. It is also called woven bone.

Next phase is Maturation phase which lasts from 28 days to 1 year.

The soft un-organized bone which was formed in the last phase, now mineralization will start in that and it will be orient perpendicular to implant surface.

It is also called bone remodeling. And osteo blast and osteo clast do it together.

Osteo clast resort the woven bone and osteo blast forms organized lamellar bones slowly. And this process mediates osteo-cytes.

New trabecular bone will be formed in this which will be according to new situation and OSSEO-INTEGRATION will be completed.

So, today we have learnt about Osseo-integration and bone healing.

If you also want to learn dental implant then GDS Academy welcomes you where you are taught to implant on the patient, where problem-solving is taught in actual and where you also lifetime support.

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7 Habits Of Successful Dentist | Great People Do Things Differently

7 Habits Of Successful Dentist | Great People Do Things Differently

by Dental Marketing

We watch many motivational videos but our energy or motivational level ends after a time. And then we start doing as we are used to. People are mostly compelled by their habit and work accordingly. No matter how much anyone makes us understand. Actually we are all like this and it is very difficult for us to change our habit but this is also true that these habits decide our future.

And our today’s topic is HABIT. Today we will come to know which habits should be there in us.

Today, we will see which effective habits should be there in a successful dentist.

When I talk to my friend Anuj, he tells me how his work is being affected because of an unethical dentist. He tells me that DCI is opening colleges by taking money and dentists are dying hungrily. He can make me understand for hours that due to oversaturation in dentistry, today dentist cannot live a good life-style.

And most of us react like my friend Anuj, because we are reactive person.

They put their concentration on those things which they cannot control. According to that they face problems due to others.

But being in this situation the proactive dentists do not focus on these things because they cannot control these. That why they focus on how they can satisfy their patients, how they can do marketing and how they should invest their money.

Do you know how much hard work you will have to do, how much time you will have to give and how much anxious you will feel if you will ask these questions from yourself. And what our mind will chose in default situation – to give more efforts or to complain by giving less efforts. That’s why more of us chose to complain about those things that we cannot do.

So, our first habit is BECOME PROACTIVE.

Imagine that you go to a hospital and you see a dead body there. But after seeing that dead body you feel like you are laid on the stretches. And now you want to hear that what people are saying about you. And this is a type of question whose answer you had never thought of.

Now tell me that your daily activities are taking you to the answer. Do you want to listen that you were a good husband/wife. If yes then spending more time at the clinic and fighting with your spouse affects your goal.

Do you want to listen that you were a good human being and did many works for the society?

So, does your daily activity taking you to that way, do you work for anyone in the society, have you changed someone’s life.

Do you want to listen that you were a famous dentist?

Do you improve your skills? Do you constantly work for the satisfaction of the patients?

So, basically you have to ask yourself that your daily activities are taking you towards your goal or not.

So, our second habit is BEGIN WITH END IN MIND.

If I ask you that what is the most important thing for you then more chances of your answer will be that to remain healthy and live happily with family. You will never tell me that to see face book feed, TV or doing time pass is the important thing for you.

But most of us do these things only. If we have empty time we like to scroll the face book feed and neither go to the gym for workout nor spend time with family.

Now, our third habit is PUT FIRST THING FIRST.

 Imagine that you and me run dental clinics and the clinic of both of us works ok – ok and we both give a lot of efforts in increasing OPD.

One day, I saw the pamphlet of your clinic and I liked it. I decide to meet you. When we meet I shared my marketing incidents with you that how much profit and loss I am getting.

After seeing my honesty you also told me that you had print the pamphlet and how much useful it was to you.

When we start doing marketing together, we both apply our mind and a new idea is created. Higher quantity makes things cheaper. Hearing each other’s mistake, we avoid doing the same mistakes again.

But this does not happen in actual scenario. If we get profit in something we don’t share it. And we make jokes by putting pamphlet on face book. But from this you will not get much benefit.

So, there is a very big gap between what we say and what we do.

 

Now, our fourth habit is SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD.

 Actual life is not like a ludo game that if one has to win the other has to lose.

One thing which I want to from you is to like and subscribe to my video. I will not say that I had put a lot of efforts on it, spend many hours or the editing of this video was very tough.

Because who cares how much hours I had spend on it or how much hard work I had done.

The most important question is this video is useful to you or not. Why will you spend your time on subscribing? Just like this if any patient comes to you with pain, he does not want to buy RCT from you. He will not care that this is his wisdom tooth and you will have to give your more efforts. He just wants to end his pain.

So, the fifth habit is THINK WIN-WIN.

 Imagine that mangoes are on a tree and you want to eat mangoes but your height is small and you cannot reach the mangoes. You see a man on the other side trying to pluck mangoes but his hands also can’t reach to the mangoes.

Together you decide to pluck the mangoes. You will take mangoes by climbing on the back of man and then divide it among yourself. And this is called synergy.

Just like this you can tie up with other business near your clinic.

He will give your coupon to his customer and you will give his coupon to your customer.

According to the example of mangoes, if you wouldn’t have tied up with other man you do not get one mango also.

You have to create synergistic opportunity. The more you tie-up, the more you will get successful.

Our sixth habit is SYNERGISE.

One day you see that a man is cutting tree outside your home. He is doing it continuously from an hour or two. After seeing this you go to him and advise him to sharpen his tools.

But that man says you that more time and money will have to be spend on sharpening the tools. Maybe you will laugh after listening to this answer but we also do the same thing daily.

We spend our time on the same type of problem daily at our clinic like mismanagement, dislodge crown & cement but we do not learn anything new to correct them.

Two days management course can save your daily hours.

So, the last tip is SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS.

It is very important that the skills which you have should be sharpening daily by revising something new on daily basis.

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Never Loose Dental Patient| Formula For Patient Loyalty-8 Phases of Patient

by Dental Marketing

Customer Experience is a new method of branding. And if you give the customer experience to your patients then you will never lose customers. And the things which I am going to tell you today will be applied to all dental clinics either you have one chair clinic or you have a dental chain.

 

First of all, you need to know that costly is it to lose one customer. However, we spend at least Rs 1000 in calling new patients but we do nothing to recall our old patients. It takes seven times less money to recall old patients. For example:- if you play an advertisement on the internet and if one patient steps in your clinic then you will have to spend at least Rs 100 for your advertisement but if you spend Rs. 100 on an old patient then he will become a fan of yours. He will do mouth publicity of yours and he will come to you every time. That’s why retaining old patients is cheap and important too. Just think for a minute that if all your patients give your referral then how big your business will be.

 

If it is a dental clinic or any other business, people lose 20-70% of their customers in the first 100 days. The only reason that patients feel neglected once the treatment is over. And this happens because we design our dental clinic in that way. Our whole focus used to be on our new patients but we don’t pay much attention to our old patients that where will he go now. And there are three main reasons:-

 

1. Most of the dental clinics spend their money on calling new patients and as soon as those patients start taking treatment we used to think that they are our usual customer and we don’t do anything special for them.

 

2. The dental clinic appreciates those employees who come with new patients and forgets him who converts customer service into the customer experience.

 

3. If there are patients in the dental clinic then our whole focus remains on treatment gets over as soon as possible and we think that delivering treatment is everything.

 

So, we should understand that customer experience is not equal to customer service.

Customer service is reactive which means we provide treatment to the patients according to their nerd.

 

Customer experience is a practice which means what patients feel in your clinic or how was his overall treatment experience? And you have just first 100 days to take the patient experience from good to awesome.

 

I am saying 100 days because it is easy to remember 100 days and you get more time to build your experience. You have to change your patient’s perception and you can do this world by keeping a consistent approach. You have to do this work continuously for 100 days so that patient can make good trust.

 

So let’s see how we can do this…….

One patient goes through five phases in our clinic.

 

The FIRST PHASE IS TO ASSIST

 

This phase is before the patient meets you. The patient is deciding whether he should take treatment in your clinic or not. The patient wants to know that you can solve his problems in a good way or not. It means the patient is checking about you on your website, seeing your clinic from outside, asking about any queries on reception or talking on the phone on reception.

You are getting it right. The patient can decide before meeting you that he doesn’t want to take treatment from you. And on this stage showing the patients that treatment is good or not is more important than showing them that their experience is going to be very good. Suppose patient calls on reception and asks that he is suffering from pain in his teeth but most probably at that time you or your receptionist will tell him that he has to get RCT and what are the charges of that. But we forget to tell him how his experience going to be. They want to feel with their question that they are very important for you. So that’s why to tell them on the phone also that your experience is going to be awesome here.

 

We can give them some unexpected gifts on this stage and we call it pre-framing too. We can give them educational material and for this, we have to do our homework that we should know what things for toothache patients want to study or see. If we know the background of our patients it is better as if he is educated or not, where does he live, what are his interests likes and dislikes etc?

 

You don’t have to focus on making immediate patients instead you have to focus on keeping long term relationship with patients.

 

The SECOND PHASE IS TO ADMIT

 

This phase starts when the customer understands what are his problems and what is the treatment of that problem. And he tells you to start the treatment.

 

And at this stage, we can improve our buyer experience by giving them some types of momentum from which patients do not forget you and give you the chance to treat them. Like you can give them a brush and you can tell the right way to use it.

 

On this time patients used to be in a transition phase. Firstly he doubts you and secondly his heart used to be excited for getting treated by you.

 

Now the patient has found his solution and he is excited by taking his choice and we are also excited because we have joined a new patient with us in our clinic.

 

And you have to take advantage of this situation like you can send them face book request or a thank you video on what’s app.

 

It means you have to create an illusion that he has joined a very big organization.

 

In this phase, you have to be very creative and should do something unexpected so that patient can make a remarkable experience.

 

The THIRD PHASE IS TO AFFIRM

 

This phase comes when the patient stands up from your chair and thinks that the decision which he had taken to be treated by you is right or wrong. We call it buyer remark. The patient is afraid of two things at this stage.

 

First, one has he taken the right decision?

 

Second, will he get the result he has thought or what if it doesn’t?

 

Then you work is to aware the patient once again that he has taken the correct decision. You should give 3-4 different ways of payment to the patient like cash, card, wallet, check, EMI etc.

 

Suppose you have taken the decision of marrying someone after many years and at the moment of the wedding you get married to someone else then how would you feel?

 

Just in the same way patients are also afraid that will his problem be solved permanently. Won’t this problem happen again and again? If my problem is not over, will I get a refund? Or any question which can strike to patient’s mind. Here you should give a guarantee/warranty. You should reassure him that his decision is perfect. Give him the receipt of his money, write the treatment plan, if you can testimonials or photographs of the patient then show him and do this thing then also when you believe that this patient is not going anywhere.

 

The FOURTH PHASE IS TO ACTIVATE

 

This phase comes when the patient takes his sitting of treatment and goes home. We should make sure that the patient should feel better than before. Let’s take an example:-

 

Apple was the first company who let his products to be fully charged, before that everyone used to buy the new gadget, charge it and then use it. It used to spoil all excitement and waiting. And now you all know that every company used to charge their products before selling them. In that way, only the method of treatment should be smooth and comfortable. If you have done occ / usual relieve during RCT then make sure that you have not left any sharp point. Make sure that you have done polishing after scaling. Even you send the patient after rinsing their mouth from mouthwash so that they could feel fresh.

 

The FIFTH PHASE IS TO ACCLIMATE

 

This phase comes when the treatment of the patient gets over. This time you have to describe a patient’s stress point. Suppose you are delivering retainer after orthodontic treatment. Then you have to tell the importance of retainer. He will have a question in his mind that his teeth will not become the same again. He was this much disturbed from his braces that he doesn’t want to wear a retainer. But your work is to answer the questions of the patient and to tell him about problems which will occur in future.

 

And this is the time when you tell your patient that if he feels any problem he can come to you again for that or call him for check up again.

 

The SIXTH PHASE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT

 

This phase comes the treatment of the patient gets over and he enjoys his food. We think about the patient till the last phase but there are three more stages of the patient.

 

In this stage, you should do a follow-up call with your patient. You should take feedback from the patient. And this feedback is very valuable for you which you can’t buy from money. If your patient is better than before then it the right time to do the upsell. You can call him for cleaning or filling. You can surprise them by sending some cards too.

 

The SEVENTH PHASE IS TO ADOPT

 

This phase comes when the treatment of a patient is over a month. He is happy from your treatment and wants to make you his family dentist but he doesn’t need any treatment now. Now you make him a loyal customer from the good customer by offering some exclusive benefits or any loyalty membership card.

 

For example:- if he is referring to any new patient then he will have 20% discount etc. At this stage the emotional level of customer is different. You have to make him loyal at this stage only.

 

The EIGHTH PHASE IS TO ADVOCATE

 

Now our patient is not a normal customer, he is our fan and he is our referral agent. But we forget to give credit to our referral agent. Suppose someone refers you a patient and you make the consultation fee-free for him then this discount will not matter for him. But if you offer him teeth cleaning in free then it will matter to him. So if you want to give some gift to your loyal customer then gift him something which matters to him which motivates him to give more referrals.

 

Or you can say it like that when you get any referral patient, your marketing cost will become zero and your patient will also be quality. He trusts you from before only. So, you can use the remaining money in the right place.

Achieving High Dental Performance | Unlocking Dentist Potential

Unlocking Dentist Potential

by Dental Marketing

Who among of us don’t want a high performance dental clinic. Today I will tell you a magical method through which you can get a high performance by the same staffs in the same clinic. This method is being told by the author John Doerr in his book named ‘ MEASURE WHAT MATTERS’. If you own this method  then you can measure and map your path of success in a better way and be successful. Author had learnt this method in intel and then taught it to google when google was a company of 30 people and google uses this method today also. Because nowadays also this method is so powerful that every employee want to follow this. Not only google but also start up like Myfitnesspal and zoom says that they could have survived due to this method only. 

Now, you must be thinking that what is this system that is so rewarding. We call this system OKR in which ‘O’  stands for Objectives and ‘KR’ stands for Key Results.

Objective is what you want to achieve.

Key Results are those which will help you to achieve your objective.

Author says that “if you are striving for higher performance in workplace, then goals are very necessary thing.

The Co-Founder of Google ‘Larry Page’ says that ‘you can do the magic by good ideas with great execution’. And here comes ORR system. This system have three pillars.

  1. AUDACIOUS OBJECTIVE :– Your goal should be that much big that inspires you daily. 

The director of the movie Titanic “James Cameron” says that if you set your goals ridiculously high and if it’s a failure  you will fail above everyone else success. Because when rest of them would have been learning at that time you will become king of skills and knowledge in the journey of reaching that goal. While setting the objective be idealistic not realistic.  Suppose you make an objective of 100% RCT success rate. And you believe the goal but you get failure. You just get 99% of success rate. Technically you become fail in achieving the goal but in the process of failure you get a good knowledge of RCT like you become master in new technology Like microscope  and 3D obturation. So now you get referral of patients from all over the state or company like Dentsply wants to make you speaker of it’s company. 

To know the objective you must ask these two questions from yourself :-

  1. If your all restrictions end then what changes would you like to make in this world ?

  2. If there is something which you want to make the best then what would be it ?

The answers which you get is your ideal objective and now you scale it that much that it becomes 1 step less than impossible to make them believable and audacious objective.

Bill Gates made objective to end Malaria in the world till 2015. But this objective was so large that it seems unbelievable and started discouraging the team. He quickly realised this and created a new objective called ‘Malaria free world till 2040 which is believable and inspiring. 

  1.  

  1. Next pillar is QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITIVE KEY RESULTS:-

Objectives inspires you and Key results are metrics driven who motivates you by telling you a real picture. Key results can be those 3-5 things. If you worked on these things, you would be very close to your objective. For example :- profit, number of new patients, patient referral, growth are the key results for any clinic. Because it can measure the progress objective of the clinic and these key results could be weak, average and strong.

Let’s understand this with an example :-

Increase the number of profits and increase the number of patients are weak key results. 

Or

increase the profit by 20 % and increase the number of patients by 10%  are average key results because this result is too specific and measurable. 

Where

  1. Increase the profit by 40%

  2. Increase the number of patients by 10%

  3. Work daily for marketing for 1 hour

  4. Have staff training every week.  

These are strong key results. These are strong because it have the perfect blend of qualitative and quantitive measure.

Let’s see it with an example :-

You want to include implanting service in your daily practice. Doing 5 implant every month is a quantitive key result. Patients are not discomfort and they remain satisfy is qualitative key result. Suppose the key results are the gauge of dashboard of your car which shows your growth, pace and consistency. This tells you that you will achieve your objectives on time or you will have to increase your speed. 

  1. Our next pillar is COLOUR CODING SCHEME :-  

If your strategy, execution and results are align then your are very near to the objective but to keep your results align colour coding scheme is very important. You can give RED, YELLOW AND GREEN colours to your result. You can use these colours in this way :- 

If your key results are between 70-100% satisfactory then give it GREEN colour.

If it is 30-70% beneficial then give it YELLOW mark and work on the recovery plan.

And if it is only 0-30% then replace it or recover the entire strategy. 

 

Let’s see in our example :-

Objective :- to double collection from 1lac to 2lac per month in clinic.

Our key results are :-

  1. Increase profit by 40%

  2. Increase the patients by 10%

  3. Work daily for marketing for 1 hour

  4. Weekly staff meeting.

Now let’s see how we give colours.

First one is increase the profit by 40%.

We have to increase our charges by 50% to increase the profit. Then our overall profit will increase by 35%. So, we will give green code

Second is increase patients by 10%.

Patients reduce instead of increasing by 10% when charges increase. So, we will give red code and we will have to think that the decision of increasing the charges is right or or not. 

Third is work daily for marketing for 1 hour.

sometimes we do marketing and sometimes we don’t. So, our result is 40% satisfactory that’s why we give yellow mark.

Fourth key result is weekly weekly staff meeting.

We only took few meeting so again 30% result and yellow mark. It means we have to take out special time to train the staffs. So, we could not achieve our target objective that’s why we either have to change our strategy or we have to adjust our strategy. This is not necessary to stick with every strategy or very key results. If it’s not giving any result then immediately remove this because our goals are the servant of our purpose. And if your whole key results are constantly getting green mark then there is some problem. You are marking it’s difficulty level too low and if there is this case then you are going to pay in a big way. So, if you want to achieve something significant then you convert your passion into audacious objective. 

Set 3-5 qualitative and quantitive key results and periodically apply colours to your key results to raise the performance and lead the team efficiently. 

THANK YOU.

Endodontic Flare Up & Management – Extreme pain & swelling during & after root canal treatment(RCT)

Endodontic Flare Up & Management – Extreme pain & swelling during & after root canal treatment(RCT)

by Endodontic Lectures and TutorialsUncategorized

Despite our best efforts sometime patient feel extreme pain or swelling during or after root canal treatment commonly known as flare-ups.The clinician should use proper methods and follow appropriate guidelines to prevent these undesirable episodes

 

So, why these flare-up occurs?

They can be due to mechanical, chemical or microbial injury

to the pulp or periapical tissues

let’s first look on Mechanical Injury 

It may occur due to :

1 Overinstrumentation

it is the most common cause of mid treatment flare-ups

2. Incomplete removal of pulp

tissues can also result in pain

3. Periapical extrusion of debris

can lead to periapical inflammation and then to flare-ups.

Second factor is Chemical Injury:-

Injury to the periapical tissues by :

 

  • Irrigants

  • Periapica medicaments

  • Overextended filling materials

 

Third one is Microbial Induced Injury

It is considered as most significant factor in flare-ups. Bacterial factor combined with above

causes inter appointment pain. So, question arises what factors at microscopic level lead to those changes which causes flare-ups understanding these mechanism is little boring but don’t worry I will guide you through.

let’s start from alteration of Local Adaptation Syndrome

 

In case of chronic pulple diseases, the inflammatory lesion is adapted to irritants but during root canal therapy, a new irritant in the form of irrigation and  filling get introduced in the lesion leading to flare-ups.

 

Next is changes in Periapical Tissue Pressure

 

When pressure below the root canal increases due to excessive puss it creates pain by causing pressure on nerves. Root canal of such teeth when kept open puss comes out but in teeth with less pressure below root bacteria and other irritants get aspirated into the periapical area leading to pain.

 

Next one is Microbial Mechanism in the induction of flare-ups

 

First one is apical extrusion of infected debris:

 

Extrusion of microbes destroy the balance between microbial aggression and defense leading to acute periapical inflammation.

 

 Second is changes in the Endodontic Micro Flora or in Environmental Conditions

 

Incomplete preparation of canal disrupts the balance between the various microbial communities within the root canal system that may favor the overgrowth of dangerous microbes, which can lead to flare-up

 

Next is Secondary Intraradicular Infection

 

It means penetration of the new microbes from the saliva into the root canal system during treatment may lead to a secondary infection and can be a cause of flare up.

 

Next is difficult one Increase of Oxidation-Reduction Potential 

 

Alteration of oxidation reduction potential in the root canal during treatment may favor the overgrowth of dangerous bacteria that resist of a root canal procedure and lead to flare-ups.

 

Other two factors are totally theoretical and I too don’t understand them completely

 

First one is Effect of Chemical Mediators 

 

Chemical mediators can be in 2 form of Cell Mediators or Plasma Mediators

 

Cell Mediators include histamine, serotonin,prostaglandins, plateletactivating factor and lysosomal components which may lead to pain.

 

The Plasma Mediators are present in circulation in inactive form and get activated on coming in contact with

irritants .For example human factor when gets activated after in contact with irritants, produced multiple effects like production of bradykinin and activation of clotting cascade which may cause vascular leakage.

 

Other one is Changes in Cyclic Nucleotide

 

cAMP helps in reducing pain by inhibiting mast cell degranulation where as cGMP increases pain by stimulating mast cell degranulation and during flare-up, there is increased level of cGMP over cAMP concentrations.

 

 let’s move forward from this boring topic to the Management of flare-ups as

 

As the cause of flare-ups are multiple, many treatment options are there for the prevention and relieving of the symptoms during the root canal therapy.

 

Management can be divided into 2 

 

First is Preventive and second is Definitive 

 

In preventive management first step is Proper Diagnosis before starting RCT ,proper diagnosis of the condition should be made so as to prevent incorrect treatment that may lead to pain or swelling then Determine proper working length inaccurate measurement of the working length may lead to under or

over instrumentation and extrusion of debris, irrigants, medicaments or filling material beyond the epex.

And after that most important step is complete debridement thorough cleaning and shaping of the root canal system may decreases the incidence of flare-up. Maintenance of apical patency and crown-down preparation techniques are two important factors in the management of flare-ups. we can also do occlusal

reduction it is a good pain preventive strategy placement of intra canal medicaments in multi vist root canal treatment calcium hydroxide has been recommended as an intracanal medicament for the prevention or treatment of flare-ups. Next is closed dressing leaving a tooth open for drainage is contraindicated as it can cause contamination from the oral cavity and lead to flare-ups. last one is medications antibiotics are not

indicated in the prevention of flare-ups for healthy patient. Antibiotic should be given only in cases of medically compromised patient at high risk analgesic most commonly used drugs include ibuprofen,diclofenac sodium, ketorolac etc.

 

 Now move forward to the other management that is Definitive Treatment

 

First step is drainage through the coronal assess opening

 

The first happened relieving the pain is to establish the drainage through the root canal when it has not been obturated or poorly obturated. Penetration of the apical foramen with the small files should be done to establish the drainage.

 

 Next  method is incision and drainage occasionally abscess present in relation to tooth communicates to vestibule. In these cases flare-ups can be managed through a combination of canal instrumentation and incision and drainage.

 

Proper Instrumentation working length should be re-established apical patency must be obtained and

thorough irrigation should be done.

 

Next is Trephination when drainage through the canal is not possible due to restorative issues or in cases of certain conditions like failing treatment or necessary correction of procedural accident a surgical  trephination can be used as palliative measure. It involves the surgical perforation of the  alveolar cortical plate over the root end to release the accumulated exudates to release pain.

 

However it is not the first line of treatment intracanal medicaments use of corticosteroid antibiotic combination as an intracanal medicament has been recommended to reduce pain especially in case of over

instrumentation.

 

 Analgesics and antibiotics for the most patient the saves are sufficient to control pain however if the pain cannot be controlled with  NSAIDs, opoid analgesics can be used to supplement with NSADIs.