Subject:     070 - Endodontics
Credits:      6         Lecture
Thursday, June 18: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Lunch:       12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Audience:  D, R
Fee:            $100
Location:     Moscone West, Level 2, Room 2004

Speaker Bio:  Santa Barbara, CA; private practice; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Endodontics, USC/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Owner, Dental Education Laboratories

AM Session

This presentation relates the most fundamental and unchanging endodontic issues—pulp, dentin, root, and root canal anatomy—to principles of treatment, simplifying our choices among evolving procedural technologies.

 A diagnostic regimen is shown that can definitively rule endo in or out, and if pain is of endo etiology, it can definitively discover which tooth is referring the pain. The use of cone beam CT imaging is shown as a diagnostic as well as a treatment planning tool, finishing with a logical decision tree clinicians can use when considering whether to save the tooth with further treatment or to replace it with an implant fixture.

PM Session

The afternoon presentation shows Dr. Buchanan’s most current treatment methods, shot in HD through clear tooth replicas and during treatment of live patient cases. Procedures covered included guided access preparations, rotary negotiation, shaping canals with one to three files, bug-jarring irrigation and 3D obturation accomplished in seconds.

After watching this presentation attendees should understand:

1. The influence of endodontic anatomy on pulp degeneration and how the complexities of root canal systems dictate treatment to their full apical and lateral extents.
2. How 3D and 2D radiography with thermal pulp testing can deliver 100% diagnostic confidence.
3. How to treatment plan emergency care, endo vs implant, and how you are going to successfully invade pt’s root canal systems.
4. How cutting with guided access burs reduces loss of tooth structure while improving file paths.
5. How rotary negotiation brings the 10X improvement that rotary shaping did 15 years ago.
6. Why 3D obturation can improve success rates and how simple it is to do with today’s technology

 

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