S32: The Golden Era Of Root Canal Instrumentation (LECTURE ONLY)
Subject: 070 - Endodontics
Credits: 3 Lecture
Saturday, June 20: 8 to 11 a.m.
Audience: D, R
Fee: $50
Location: Moscone West, Level 2, Room 2004
Speaker Bio: Fort Lauderdale, FL; Professor, Endodontics, Nova Southeastern University, College of Dental Medicine.
Description: The field of endodontics is still experiencing a virtual explosion of new techniques, instruments and materials. How many of these will stand the test of time is yet to be determined. Many manufacturers’ claims and existing guidelines for selecting a NiTi file system are:
- Based on contemporary authors and lecturers, anecdotal based on clinical experience without scientific approach (evidence based) often unsubstantiated.
- Emphasize importance of instrument sequence to shape root canals radiographically for obturation based on philosophies limited by constraints of previous canal preparation instruments, techniques and philosophies.
- Do not discuss goals or predictable methods for obtaining clean canals and 3D obturation of them.
- Do not take recent research into account.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the ability of a single file system over multiple files systems in preparing canals without procedural errors.
- Understand the objectives of canal instrumentation and how to achieve these objectives with one single NiTi file system based on research.
- Know the advantages of one single file NiTi system over other ones.
- Know the advantages of core-obturation materials for 3D obturation of the prepared canal space based on the “best evidence possible.”
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