2022 Courses and Events

Course #: 1020
Date: 11/25/2022
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Anne Koch

Room: 1E08
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $250.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This program is geared principally toward the recent dental graduate who feels somewhat intimidated by endodontics, because they have had minimal exposure to clinical endodontics in dental school. This seminar is dedicated to practical diagnosis, the importance of straight-line access, case selection, achieving profound anesthesia, minimization of iatrogenic errors, various instrumentation techniques, and contemporary obturation options.

Learn:

• to conceptualize endodontics in a more comprehensive manner
• to understand diagnosis, instrumentation, and obturation
• to diagnose and anesthetize “hot teeth”
• the meaning of an “Endo-Restorative Continuum”

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 1110
Date: 11/25/2022
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Marcus Johnson

Room: 1E07
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Students, Educator

Description:

This hands-on workshop highlights real-life techniques and strategies for successful endodontic case management. This course covers everything from diagnosis, administering local anesthetics to negotiating canal anatomy. This program aims to educate practitioners to accurately diagnose a patient’s chief complaint of odontogenic pain and simplifies managing root canals with dentin conserving heat-treated-controlled memory files that boast smaller taper, and increased resistance to breakage.

Learn:

• biological and clinical principles for predictably successful pain
• management and non-surgical root canal therapy
• to maximize endo-restorative dynamics while taking advantage of modern metallurgy developments that increase flexibility and prevent files breaking
• review the dynamics of dentin preservation and minimal engagement endodontics

Course #: 1160
Date: 11/25/2022
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Anne Koch

Room: 1E07
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This hands-on workshop begins with a brief review of rotary instrumentation and continues with a hands-on demonstration. The clinician demonstrates how to properly use heat-treated and non-heat-treated files- rotary files (the Blend Technique) and the best way to use bioceramic technology. Follow-ing the demonstration, participants are encouraged to practice the various techniques being introduced.

Learn

• to perform rotary instrumentation utilizing a “Rhythm” motion
• what causes the separation of rotary files and how best to prevent them
• to successfully obturate a tooth or block using the hydraulic condensation technique
• the need for piezo-electric ultrasonics and their benefit in clinical endodontics

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 2100
Date: 11/26/2022
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Carlos Ramos

Room: 1E17
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $275.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Assistants, Educator, Doctor

Description:

Proper cleaning and shaping of the canal space is a prerequisite for achieving clinical success in endodontics. The main goal of this program is to teach the attendee to take their practice to the next level by using a simple and efficient endodontic technique using a new instrumentation system based on the safety of reciprocation allied to the efficiency of rotatory movement. The clinician delivers an easy-to-use and highly effective ultrasonic irrigation technique to achieve an elevated level of cleanness and disinfection.

Learn:

• to find the canal’s entrance with special designed ultrasonic inserts 
• the importance of file heat treatment and how this aspect can improve instrumentation results
• to master an intuitive 2-files instrumentation technique taking advantage of the two different kinematics

•  an effective single cone obturation technique

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 2280
Date: 11/26/2022
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Anne Koch

Room: 1E07
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This hands-on workshop begins with a review of preventing the separation of rotary files. The Blend Technique (basic and advanced) is introduced and. the clinician demonstrates how to properly use heat treated and non-heat treated files-rotary files. All attendees perform hydraulic condensation, and the clinician describes the best ways to use bioceramic technology in challenging cases. Piezoelectric ultrasonics are available, and attendees will have the opportunity to work with a new digital imaging system.

Learn:

• the Blend Technique in both simple and advanced cases
• what causes the separation of rotary files and how best to prevent them
• to successfully use a piezoelectric ultrasonic unit for finding hidden canals
• the keys to perforation repair

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 2200
Date: 11/26/2022
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Meetu Kohli

Room: 1E17
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $275.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Students, Educator

Description:

The endodontic treatment spectrum is broader than just routine root canal therapy. After a thorough diagnosis and dental history evaluation, the treatment of choice is decided upon. Vital pulp therapy should be the first consideration when a treatment modality for a carious lesion is being considered based on pulpal diagnosis. The best filling for root canal space is the pulp. With the advent of newer materials, such as bioceramics, their biocompatibility and sealing ability makes these procedures more predictable and successful if the case selection is accurate.

Learn:

• the indications and contraindications of the procedure
• the clinical steps of treatment
• how advances in material science and technology have affected the prognosis and have an evidence-based knowledge of the outcome of each of the procedures

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 2320
Date: 11/26/2022
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Carlos Ramos

Room: 1E06
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Educator

Description:

It is strongly recommended that participants attend the morning lecture session, and bring loupes but not required.

CONTEMPORARY ENDODONTICS STARTING TODAY:  A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
In this hands-on workshop, an endodontic engine-driven instrumentation streamlined technique with new customized heat-treated files is reviewed and practiced. Activation and irrigation protocols during and after enlargement are trained on 3D printed micro-CT-based molar replicas. Variants in the instrumentation of calcified canals and an obturation technique using a new bioceramic sealer are discussed.

Learn

• identify and execute the different steps in a modern, streamlined endodontic instrumentation protocol
• proceed with the ultrasonic stream of irrigants during the irrigation phase of endodontic therapy
• perform a single cone bioceramic sealer obturation

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 3480
Date: 11/27/2022
Time: 9:45am - 12:45pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Meetu Kohli

Room: Exhibit Floor - Hall A - Glass Classroom #2
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Students, Educator

Description:

The critical biological goal of root canal treatment is to remove the bacteria and its by-products from the root canal system. The traditional NiTi round rotary instruments have their limitations in achieving this. The XP-endo files or the expandable files’ new 3-D technology allows for superior cleaning of the root canal system in all dimensions with minimal dentin removal are presented.

Learn:

• the technological challenges and possibilities in endodontic instruments to remove intracanal infection predictably
• the clinical use of XPe file lines
• demonstrations on the irrigation protocol

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 3220
Date: 11/27/2022
Time: 10:00am - 3:30pm
Course Info: Full Day
Speaker(s):
Stanley Malamed

Room: 1E14
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $425.00
Credits: 4
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Students, Educator

Description:

Symptomatic irreversible pulpitis represents the most significant challenge to obtaining profound pulpal anesthesia, particularly in mandibular molars. The clinician discusses this clinical problem and presents a protocol that can increase the success rate of effective pain management in this challenging situation.

Learn:

• effective pain management in symptomatic irreversible pulpitis
• the effectiveness of articaine HCl in symptomatic irreversible pulpitis
• the effectiveness of buffering in symptomatic irreversible pulpitis

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 4420
Date: 11/28/2022
Time: 9:45am - 12:45pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Meetu Kohli

Room: Exhibit Floor - Hall A - Glass Classroom #2
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $355.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Students

Description:

A conservative root canal preparation is completed by bioceramic root filling technology that does not shrink, wash out or require excessive preparation on the coronal third of the canal space, allowing the tooth to stay strong. This hands-on workshop offers a brief review of the current research in the literature on Bioceramics with the stress on obturation with Bioceramic sealers. Clinical cases demonstrate the technique and its advantages over other obturation materials.

Learn:

• to describe bioceramics
• the difference and similarities between the newer and older materials
• the clinical steps of Sealer-based obturation

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 4300
Date: 11/28/2022
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Keith Evans

Room: 1E14
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $245.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

Nearly 30 years since the introduction of Nickel Titanium Rotary Files to endodontics, we’ve learned much about these outstanding instruments’ clinical strengths and limitations. As a result of recent improvements in metallurgy, enhanced designs, and innovative rotary file motions, we now need to understand how these changes affect clinical instrumentation. Furthermore, in parallel to improvements in instrumentation technology, root canal obturation has been revolutionized in cement/sealer technology. This seminar focuses on access, irrigation, instrumentation, and obturation.

Learn to:

• how rotary file design, metallurgy, and motion influences instrumentation safety and efficiency
• the advantages of bioceramic-based obturation and clinical techniques for its implementation
• how instrumentation and obturation protocols can be combined as a comprehensive system to achieve both efficiency and predictability in most clinical situations

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 5370
Date: 11/29/2022
Time: 9:45am - 12:45pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Keith Evans

Room: Exhibit Floor - Hall A - Glass Classroom #3
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $355.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

You are breezing through your typical workday. Your next patient is that kid you have not seen since he was three years old. It’s a D.O. composite on #3. No worries, no problems, then BOOM. You see red. It’s the pulp. Why is it so close to the occlusal surface? What do you do now? Are you going to send him to endo or go to pedo? Do you try to place some Dycal? This hands-on workshop goes through the rationale for treating immature teeth in children and adults. Become familiar with ideal materials and gain confidence to manage most pulpal situations from pulp capping to vital pulp Apexogenesis to Apexification.

Learn:

• to diagnose the amount of pulpal involvement and predict the ideal treatment plan
• the advantages of Bioceramic materials for vital pulp therapy
• to instrument and obturate immature teeth in a safe and effective manner
• to obturate traditional, mature roots with Bioceramic sealer and gutta-percha

Course #: 5390
Date: 11/29/2022
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Keith Evans

Room: Exhibit Floor - Hall A - Glass Classroom #3
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $355.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This hands-on workshop discusses a simple instrumentation and obturation system during the didactic portion. After attending this workshop, you will have a complete understanding of this instrumentation and obturation system, which will help improve the predictability of your cases while dramatically reducing instrument separation.

Learn:

• to describe the proper protocol for safe and effective instrumentation of a given canal and cone fit for obturation in different scenarios
• the simple, bonded obturation technique of the fitted gutta-percha in the prepared canal 
• to utilize the advantage of Hydraulic Condensation to prepare a quick post space in the canal, if needed

Course #: 6330
Date: 11/30/2022
Time: 9:45am - 12:45pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
John Olmsted

Room: Exhibit Floor - Hall A - Glass Classroom #3
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $355.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Assistants, Students, Educator

Description:

Do you wonder which Endo instrument is the safest and most efficient? Do you have challenges with irrigation solutions? Are you tired of lateral condensing of accessory points? This half-day evidence-based hands-on workshop educates you to cutting-edge rotary/reciprocation instrumentation with new flexible and safe files; locating calcified canals and MB2; obturation of the root canal system; and utilizing a four canal 3-D maxillary first molar.

Learn to:

• demonstrate location of canals with special burs
• utilize rotary and reciprocation instrumentation
• exhibit different technics of obturation

This hands-on workshop is repeated in the afternoon

Course #: 6250
Date: 11/30/2022
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Barry Musikant

Room: Exhibit Floor Room #2024
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $245.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Students

Description:

Demonstrate applying rational endodontic principles, which are common sense based, to the goals of instrumentation and clarifying what is best to use. Marketing companies talk about the positive features of their endodontic systems only. They may suggest greater tapered preparations because that protects the rotary instrument and weakens the tooth. On the other hand, more recently, companies have advised conservative preparations to protect the instrument that increases the chances of leaving debris in the buccal and lingual extensions of oval canals. This program provides solutions for these dichotomies.

Learn:

•  the short arcs of motion using stainless steel relieved twisted reamers to eliminate instrument separation 
•  about no breakage instruments for aggressive use in highly oval canals for debridement in three dimensions
•  why instruments that are used effectively are immune to breakage and can be used multiple times
•  why short arcs of motion remove hand fatigue while dramatically speeding up the instrumentation process

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 6370
Date: 11/30/2022
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
John Olmsted

Room: Exhibit Floor - Hall A - Glass Classroom #3
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $355.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Assistants, Students, Educator

Description:

Do you wonder which Endo instrument is the safest and most efficient? Do you have challenges with irrigation solutions? Are you tired of lateral condensing of accessory points? This half-day evidence-based hands-on workshop educates you to cutting-edge rotary/reciprocation instrumentation with new flexible and safe files; locating calcified canals and MB2; obturation of the root canal system; and utilizing a four canal 3-D maxillary first molar.

Learn to:

• demonstrate lthe ocation of canals with special burs
• utilize rotary and reciprocation instrumentation
• exhibit different technics of obturation

This hands-on workshop is repeated in the morning.