Lecture & Hands on Presentation: Nearly 30 years since the introduction of Nickel Titanium Rotary Files to endodontics, we’ve learned much about the clinical strengths & limitations of these great instruments. With recent improvements in metallurgy, enhanced designs, & innovative rotary file motions, we need to understand how these changes affect clinical instrumentation. In parallel to improvements in instrumentation technology, root canal obturation has been revolutionized in the area of cement/sealer technology. These obturation improvements allow more efficient obturation techniques at lower costs. Combining improvements on both instrumentation & obturation front allows us to create more efficient instrumentation & obturation techniques that are safe, simple, & predictable. Dr. Fleury will address these points with specific emphasis on access, irrigation, instrumentation, & obturation & demonstrate a simple instrumentation & obturation system. Attendees will gain a full understanding of this instrumentation & obturation system improving the predictability of cases while dramatically reducing instrument separation. Participants will have the opportunity to validate these concepts during the workshop. Plastic blocks will be used for this demonstration. If available, participants are encouraged to bring sterile accessed & canal validated extracted teeth representative of the kind of cases they do clinically. PLEASE NOTE: wisdom teeth are excluded.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will:
1. Learn how rotary file design, metallurgy and motion influences instrumentation safety and efficiency.
2. Comprehend the advantages of bioceramic based obturation and clinical techniques for its implementation.
3. Discover how instrumentation and obturation protocols can be combined as a comprehensive system to achieve both efficiency and predictability in most clinical situations.
4. Be able to describe the proper protocol for safe and effective instrumentation of a given canal and cone fit for obturation in different scenarios.
5. Describe the simple, bonded obturation of the fitted gutta percha in the prepared canal.
6. Be able to utilize the advantage of Hydraulic Condensation to prepare a quick post space in the canal, if needed.
Financial Relationship – Honorarium: Real World Endo; Material Support: Brasseler USA.