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Module 6-10 topics

Hands-on techniques are demonstrated both live and with the use of video. The ratio of didactic to hands-on training is 50:50.

Participants are encouraged to have a go themselves, using all of the contemporary endodontic preparation and obturation systems currently available in the UK. The hands-on sessions allow participants the opportunity for an unbiased look at the different systems and materials.

Module 6

• LA failure in endodontics: mechanisms and management

• Use of antibiotics in endodontics

• Prediction of endodontic pain and use of analgesics

• Alternative obturation materials: introducing resin base GP replacements

• Thermal obturation using resilon, gutta flow, endorez.

• Introduce the TriNiti filing system

• Interappointment medicaments and temporary fillings

Module 7

• Assessing success and failure of endodontic treatment using clinical and radiographic parameters

• Review periods

• Endodontic retreatment

• Causes of failure of endodontic retreatment

• Biology of the failed endodontic case

• Tactics in overcoming failure

• Removal of GP from canals: instruments and solvents

Module 8

• Restoration of the endodontically treated tooth

• Importance of coronal seal: endodontics and intraosseous implants

• Treatment planning

• Use of root filled teeth as abutments

• Amalgam dowels

• Nyaar cores

• Gold posts

• Gold sectional posts and cores

Module 9

• Tooth lightening: 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

Module 10

• Endodontic/periodontal relationships

• Procedural misadventures

• Pulp capping and pulpotomies

• Removal of instruments, posts etc from canals

• Use of ultrasonics

• Course evaluation

• Ongoing training programmes