The course will present a new approach to root canal procedures, and will try to make clinicians understand root canal complexities, possibilities and limitations of current available techniques. It will show problems often encountered and give some clinical solutions and operative protocols. More precisely it will focus on the following topics:

1. Minimally invasive endodontic access? Reality or myth?
2. Problems in locating canal orifices and understanding anatomy from orifice to apex. Management of calcified canals
3. Working length determination. Basic principles and clinical hints
4. The role and influence of canal curvatures. What makes a canal complex?
5. Differences between 2d and 3d curvatures. Role of CBCT in endo.
6. Instrumentation: working into canal and working out from canal
7. 3d shaping: how to avoid iatrogenic errors and ideally address all canal walls
8. Manual Glide-path. Needs and different methods
9. How to perform canal preparation: reciprocation vs rotary techniques. Apical finishing
10. Elimination of bacteria and of pulp remnants. Necrotic vs vital cases.
11. The shaping and cleaning concept. Irrigating protocols and materials
12. Cleaning non-instrumented and instrumented areas
13. Cold vs warm obturation techniques and materials
14. How to achieve three dimensional obturation
15. Post-endo restoration. Why direct, why posts?, why non direct ?

Benefits From Attending:

• The day will be 15 tips and tricks (principles) that when applied systematically take much of the guess work out of Endo.
• Endodontic procedures are time consuming. Endodontic errors are costly. Today will also assist you in maximizing your most precious resource, time.
• As one learned scholar once said – Endo is easy if you can ‘See’ (referring to lighting, magnification and radiography) and...You can ‘See’ (having a 3D picture of the anatomical complexities that await you). Of course Endo will always have unexpected challenges and what we choose ‘not to see’ is always an option that will also be discussed. How do we locate the Second Mesio Buccal canal in Upper First Molars or the Lingual canals of Lower Lateral Incisors anyway. Missed canals are the biggest single cause of our failures – world over.
• The take-aways from this course will help you clinically – reach critical endodontic step dissected into usable ‘takeaway’ techniques