The Essentials of Endodontics

Category: Endodontics

Instructor(s): Kreena Patel

Course structure: Lessons: 8 modules: 76 lessons | Duration: 3 h 05 min

Course overview

The Essentials of Endodontics.

The Best and Most Complete Endo Course Ever After
Welcome to "The Endo Course", lets finally destroy your fears and make you look forward to endodontics.

This course will help you gain the confidence to deliver successful, predictable and expert endodontic treatment.

Transform from an anxious dentist who dreads RCT's to a confident & holistic healthcare professional who takes on Endo cases with the same confidence as a routine filling.

You will become a dentist with no fear of root treatments or Endo, which will not only help your own confidence in yourself but also your patients confidence in you.

This will allow you to earn more from Endodontics in practice whilst not always having to rely on referring your patients out.

Impress your dental colleagues as unlike them, you have no hesitation with pulp capping and you can be the one to actually help them with their tricky cases.

Curriculum

Diagnosis

• Lessons:
• 1. History taking
• 2. Medical history
• 3. Clinical examination I extraoral
• 4. Intraoral
• 5. Special tests
• 6. Radiographs
• 7. Diagnosis
• 8. Consent

Access Cavity

• Lessons:
• 1. Access cavity
• 2. Preoperative Assessment
• 3. Pre-Endodontic Restorations
• 4. Anaesthesia
• 5. Isolation
• 6. Useful tools
• 7. Access (i) Anterior teeth
• 8. Access Premolar teeth
• 9. Molar Teeth
• 10. Locating MB2
• 11. Managing Calcified Cases

Canal Preparation

• Lessons:
• 1. Coronal Flaring
• 2. Peri-Cervical Dentine
• 3. Glide path
• 4. Working Length
• 5. Patency Filing
• 6. Rotary Instrumentation
• 7. Tips for negotiating curved canals
• 8. Tips for curved canals MB2 Canal

Irrigation & Medication

• Lessons:
• 1. Irrigants
• 2. Making The Most Of Your Irrigation Regime
• 3. Managing Hypochlorite Injuries
• 4. Medicaments
• 5. Single Vs Multiple Visit

Obturation

• Lessons:
• 1. Why
• 2. Getting ready to obturate
• 3. Apical Gauging
• 4. GP Gauging
• 5. Disinfecting GP points
• 6. Master cone
• 7. Obturation Techniques
• 8. Single cone
• 9. Cold lateral condensation
• 10. Warm vertical condensation
• 11. Carrier-based
• 12. Sealers Sealer puffs Available
• 13. Other tips

Endo - Restorative

• Lessons:
• 1. Preparation for core placement (i) Where should the core extend
• 2. How do we cut GP back
• 3. How to clean the access cavity
• 4. Definitive restorations (i) How to restore endodontically treated teeth
• 5. Why do endodontically treated teeth fracture
• 6. Deep margin elevation (i) What is DME
• 7. Why use DME
• 8. Why is it easier to use a direct technique to elevate the margin
• 9. What are the challenges of DME
• 10. When should DME be carried out for teeth requiring endodontic treatment
• 11. What material is used for the direct restoration
• 12. What are the benefits of DME compared to crown lengthening
• 13. Are there any negatives to DME
• 14. Why is it important in Endodontics
• 15. Non-vital tooth whitening
• 16. Bleaching agents
• 17. Benefits & risks of tooth whitening
• 18. Inside-Outside whitening technique
• 19. Failure to whiten trouble-shooting

Outcome

• Lessons:
• 1. How successful is treatment
• 2. Factors affecting success
• 3. Why root canal treatment fails
• 4. Endo Vs Implants

Pulp Capping

• Lessons:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Selective carious tissue removal
• 3. Pulp capping materials
• 4. Indirect pulp cap
• 5. Direct pulp cap
• 6. Immature teeth partial and full pulpotomy
• 7. Mature teeth full pulpotomy
• 8. Review