ENDODONTIC COURSE

DAY 1

• Etiology of endodontic disease
• Prognosis of non-surgical endodontic treatment
• Properties of endodontic instruments
• Biomechanical preparation techniques: balanced force filing
• Simple and predictable protocol for use of Niti files
• Biomechanical preparation techniques

• Stepback and balanced force
• Showing the use of reduced numbers of files
• Creating tapers with hand files
• Bacteriology of endodontic disease
• Focal infection, bacteraemias, anachoresis and the hollow tube theory
• Diagnosis and treatment planning
• Diagnosis of non-odontogenic pain
• Medically-compromised patients
• Tooth morphology
• Radiographic interpretation
• Irrigants
• Techniques: crown down vs stepback,
• Files anatomy
• Pulpal response to caries and dental procedures
• Anatomy of the pulp and periapex
• Endodontic working length determination
• Apex locators
• Vertical root fractures
• Introduce variants of some classic NiTi instruments,
• Importance of a glide path in preventing instrument separation
• Mechanism of fracture of rotary NiTi files
• Nitinol alloy: its use in the development of rotary NiTi instruments
• The role of NiTi in preparation of curved canals
• Irritants
• Thermal obturation: history and contemporary techniques

DAY 2

• Hot tooth in endodontics: mechanisms and management
• Antibiotics in endodontics
• Prediction of endodontic pain and use of analgesics
• A quick look at alternative obturation materials: introducing resin base GP replacements
• A look on thermal obturation.
• A look at single cone obturation techniques as well as reviewing contemporary root canal sealers
• Medicaments
• Assessing success and failure of endodontic treatment
• Endodontic retreatment
• Causes of failure of endodontic retreatment
• Biology of the failed endodontic case
• Removal of GP from canals: instruments and solvents
• Restoration of the root canal treated tooth, including provisional restorations
• Importance of coronal seal
• Treatment planning
• Use of root filled teeth as abutments
• Amalgam dowels, Nyaar cores, using both amalgam and composite materials
• Direct and indirect restorations
• Tooth bleaching: internal and external
• Internal and external resorption
• Orthodontics and endodontics
• Endodontic trauma: pathogenesis and treatment
• Apexification and apexogenesis
• Use of apical barriers in endodontics, eg MTA, and other bioceramics
• Endodontic/periodontal relationships
• Procedural mishappening
• Pulp capping and pulpotomies
• Removal of instruments, posts etc from canals
• Use of ultrasonics

DAY 3 to 5

Apply new knowledge on patient

HANDSON

All endodontic procedure will be demonstrated on extracted teeth and you have to show all procedure before proceeding to patients.