A Simple Path to Efficient and Effective Endodontics

If your goal is to attend a presentation packed with simple, efficient, and clinically relevant information for immediate integration into your day-to-day workflow, this lecture is designed with you in mind. The program is full of what-you-need-to-know pearls regarding the latest concepts, techniques, and technologies in performing predictable and high-quality endodontic treatment. Technique animations and clinical video/DVD-clips illustrating diagnosis procedures, safe and efficient access, glide path management, optimum shaping, hydrodynamic disinfection, and obturation of root canal systems in three dimensions will be shown to hopefully take effective clinicians into a level of higher performance and personal satisfaction.

OBJECTIVES – here is what you will learn:

• Importance of establishing accurate diagnoses via reliable pulp testing techniques and CBCT.
• Effectively achieve straight line access and avoid separating instruments.
• Appreciation of the power and versatility of operating microscopes.
• Strategies that maximize negotiating root canals to length while avoiding blockages.
• Understanding of the importance of owning the glide path for rotary/reciprocation files to follow in order to optimally shape canals.
• Reliable management of working length determination and rationale for apical and lateral patency.
• Efficiency and safety of the single file shaping technique.
• Efficient use and logical sequence of intracanal irrigants and chelating agents.
• Effective hydrodynamic disinfection of the root canal system.
• Advantages of the pre-enlargement technique, thermosoftened obturation, and sealer hydraulics during 3-D compaction.

GUEST LECTURER

Dr. Michael Ribera is a 1984 graduate of Boston College and a 1989 graduate of Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In 1990, he completed a general practice residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and in 1992 received his Certificate in Endodontics and Master of Science Degree from Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago.

Dr. Ribera is a member of the District of Columbia Dental Society, a specialist member of the American Association of Endodontists, a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics, and a member of the Endodontic College of Diplomates. He is the 2006 recipient of the District of Columbia Dental Society’s David Mast Award for excellence in continuing education. Dr. Ribera is fluent in Spanish, French and Italian.