NS-02 Trauma: What's New
CE Hours: 1.5
Description: It is essential for all endodontists to possess basic knowledge of emergency treatment for dental trauma, as well as the ability to recognize and manage late complications that often arise after traumatic dental injuries. This session will review the latest AAE Trauma Guidelines, highlighting the updates and what remains unchanged. Additionally, it will provide an update on treatment options that endodontists should be able to perform for the most common late complications, with a focus on preserving the alveolus and alveolar bone in young patients with severely compromised teeth after dental trauma. This discussion will include treatment options such as root resorptions, root submergence, decoronation, and autotransplantation.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the latest AAE's Dental Trauma Guidelines.
- Diagnose the most common late complications following dental trauma.
- Describe treatment options for severely compromised teeth caused by dental trauma.
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LockedAsgeir Sigurdsson, D.D.S., M.S.
Asgeir received his DDS from University of Iceland and after two years in private dental practice moved to University of North Carolina (UNC) and graduated in 1992 with certificate in endodontics and MS with emphasis on pain and pain modulation.
Full time faculty at UNC 1992-2004, was the Graduate Program Director of Endodontics 1997 to 2004. From 2004 to 2012 in a private endodontic practice in Reykjavik, Iceland and London, UK and Honorary Clinical Teacher in Endodontology, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, UK.
In 2012 he became the Chairman and tenured Professor at NYU Dentistry, Department of Endodontics. Additionally, he is an adjunct Professor at UNC.
Asgeir is past President of the International Association for Dental Traumatology and 2014 he was appointed as a Director of the American Board of Endodontics and served as the President of the Board 2019-20. He is currently on the editorial board of Dental Traumatology.
He has been invited numerous times to lecture in 49 countries all over the World, on the topics of pain, endodontics, dental trauma and/or forensic sciences. He has written or co-written over 90 per-reviewed articles and 23 textbook chapters on same topics.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose