OHI-S – Apical Surgery: For Endodontists and Surgeons

Category: Surgery

Instructor(s): Angelo Cardarelli, Gurien Demiraqi, Francesc Abella, Paula Villa, Felipe Restrepo

Course structure: Lessons: 6 lessons | Duration: 9 h 35 min

Course overview

The course in apical surgery that fully covers the aspects of surgery and retrograde filling.
Surgical aspect:
-protocols for creating incisions and suturing wounds
-work with navigation templates
-the use of piezosurgery and grafting materials.
Retrograde filling. Step by step protocols of retrograde preparation and filling. Various methods and materials.
Training created for endodontists and surgeons.

Curriculum

1. Piezoelectric procedure in endodontic surgery

• Lesson program:
• –Piezosurgical procedures in dentistry: indications
• –Piezosurgical instruments: physical properties and clinical benefits
• –Flap design: selection criteria depending on the clinical situation
• –Apicoectomy: step-by-step protocol
• –Use of bone graft in apical surgery
• –The focus of destruction near the maxillary sinus: tactics and protocol
• –Sawing according to the type of bone block using a piezosurgical instrument
• –Differences in apicoectomy techniques
• –Apicoectomy vs dental implants.
• Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, Endodontist, General Dentist.

2. Minimally invasive periapical surgery

• Lesson program:
• –Root apical resection protocol
• –Apical surgery for a through defect in maxilla
• –Prognostic factors of apical surgery
• –Apical surgery on mandible: anatomical aspects
• –Strategies in apical surgery: tools, techniques, indications
• –Protocol of primary endodontic treatment of a tooth with periapical pathology
• –Endodontic failures: tactics of actions
• –Non-surgical retreatment: factors of dental survival
• –Biocompatible materials for bone regeneration
• –Contraindications for apical surgery
• –Planned replantation: indications and techniques
• –Replantation vs apical surgery: criteria for choosing a technique
• –Advantages of piezosurgical methods in endodontics.
• Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, Endodontist, General Dentist.

3. Minimally invasive periapical surgery part 2

• Lesson program:
• –Root apical resection protocol
• –Apical surgery for a through defect in maxilla
• –Prognostic factors of apical surgery
• –Apical surgery on mandible: anatomical aspects
• –Strategies in apical surgery: tools, techniques, indications
• –Protocol of primary endodontic treatment of a tooth with periapical pathology
• –Endodontic failures: tactics of actions
• –Non-surgical retreatment: factors of dental survival
• –Biocompatible materials for bone regeneration
• –Contraindications for apical surgery
• –Planned replantation: indications and techniques
• –Replantation vs apical surgery: criteria for choosing a technique
• –Advantages of piezosurgical methods in endodontics
• –Surgical templates for apical surgery
• –Digital planning in apical surgery
• –Possible causes of apical surgery failures.
• Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, Endodontist, General Dentist.

4. Guided endodontic surgery

• Lesson program:
• –Technological aids to modern endodontic microsurgery
• –Anatomical challenges in endodontic microsurgery
• –How to perform less invasive surgeries with better results
• –3D Planning of the surgical approach
• –Computer guided endodontic microsurgery:
• Static navigation
• Dynamic navigation.
• –Advantages and disadvantages of guided microsurgery.
• Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, Endodontist, General Dentist.

5. Apical surgery with grafting

• Lesson program:
• –Rationales of apical surgery
• –Tooth preparation prior to surgery
• –What to have in mind when creating a suitable incision
• –Instruments to perform grafting
• –Apex exposing techniques
• –Preparing the site
• –Choosing the most suitable grafting materials
• –Closing the wound, materials and methods.
• Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, Endodontist, General Dentist.

6. Apical Filling: materials and techniques

• Lesson program:
• –Types of osteotomy: with bur, piezotome or piezosurgery and trephine
• –Cortical Window Technique
• –Apicoectomy (3mm rule. More or less?)
• –Retropreparation (3mm or more?)
• –Isthmus Managment
• –Apical Filling
• –Commun mistakes.
• Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, Endodontist, General Dentist.