Author's course of Arnaldo Castellucci

– Digital radiology: the importance of 3D research in endodontics

– CBCT: planes and principles of 3D image formation

– Limitations of using 2D images

– Visualization of anatomical formations on CBCT:

- Mental foramen and mental nerve

- Dens in dental

- Inferior alveolar nerve

- Calcification of root canals

- Traumatic root injuries

- Missed root canals

- Internal and external root resorption.

– Indications for CBCT before and during surgery.

Recommended for: Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, General dentists.

– Goals of conservative endodontics

– Causes of endodontic treatment failures:

- under-sealing

- hyper sealing.

– Methods for determining the working length of root canals:

- tactile

- X-ray

- using the apexlocator

- application of paper pin.

– Anatomical apex and radiological apex: the main differences

– Physical principles of operation of the apexlocator

– The role of the file to check the patency.

Recommended for: Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, General dentists.

– Evolution and properties of MTA

– Indications for the use of MTA in conservative and surgical endodontics

– Apical barrier technique

– Perforation closure by vertical compaction method

– MTA removal: indications and tactics

– Protocols for the use of MTA in endodontics:

- how to seal an open apex

- perforation under the microscope

- how to protect a pulp exposure to perform a direct pulp capping

- retrograde filling.

– Long-term results of using MTA in endodontics.

Recommended for: Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, General dentists.

– Silver pin extraction: detailed protocols, recommendations, life hacks

– Tools for removing broken files from canals

– Saving the instrument in the canal: indications

– Remove or bypass a broken file: choosing tactics

– Factors affecting the removal of broken files

– Causes of endodontic instrument fracture

– Indications for surgical methods of removal of broken files

– Method of removing the cast pin tab

– The technique of removing the threaded tab

– Methods of extraction of fiberglass pins.

Recommended for: Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, General dentists.

– Advantages of working with a microscope and ultrasound in endodontics

– Indications for the use of ultrasonics in clinical and surgical endodontics

– Finishing protocol of the access cavity using ultrasonics

– Protocol for creating an access cavity using the example of a central incisor

– Overview of various types of ultrasonics and their clinical application

– Removal of calcifications from the tooth cavity

– Methods of endodontic retreatment with the use of ultrasonics

– Broken files: removal protocol

– The use of ultrasonics in surgical endodontics.

Recommended for: Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, General dentists.

– Periodontal dental health: criteria

– Periapical curettage vs apectomy

– Advantages and importance of using a microscope

– The concept of microsurgical endodontics and its differences from endodontic surgery

– Protocol of microsurgical operation in endodontics

– Causes of endodontic surgery failures

– Planning of treatment in endodontic surgery

– Limitations of using a 2D image

– Fistula: tactics and a scientifically based approach

– Application of ultrasonics in retrograde sealing: protocol

– Indications and contraindications for endodontic surgery

– Histological aspects of endodontic surgery

– Flap design: scar-free operations and flaps of choice

– Methods of bone grafting during surgery in endodontics

– Suture: materials and terms of suture release.

Recommended for: Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, General dentists.