NS-10 Vital Pulp Therapy

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CE Hours: 1.5

Description: Vital pulp therapy (VPT) has been an accepted means of saving immature teeth with exposed pulps. Recent studies utilizing various calcium silicate cements on mature teeth with exposed pulps are demonstrating favorable outcomes that compare with those of nonsurgical root canal therapy. Position statements have been created by the European Society of Endodontology and the American Association of Endodontists which approach this topic from different perspectives. These perspectives will be discussed by individuals from both groups who will give the attendees a comprehensive view of where they agree, where they differ, and on the path forward.

Learning Objectives:  

  • Explain the significance of VPT as it relates to the preservation of teeth and tooth structure, access to care, and patient-centered outcomes
  • Describe the issues of diagnostic testing and diagnostic terminology as they relate to VPT
  • Describe the role that caries management plays in how endodontists would approach VPT as compared to general dentists

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Vital Pulp Therapy
Recorded 05/06/2023  |  90 minutes
Recorded 05/06/2023  |  90 minutes
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1.50 CE credits  |  Certificate available
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Craig S. Hirschberg, D.D.S.

AAE President elect Chair, Department of Endodontics at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Endodontic Program Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Graduated: 1983 Dental Program New York University Graduated: 1980

I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.

Lars Bjørndal, Ph.D., Dr, Odont

Lars Bjørndal (LB) Lars Bjørndal (born 1963). Civil status married 3 children. Graduated in 1988 as a dentist from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1992: Ph.D. thesis on the topic: Caries progression in enamel and the pulp-dentin organ using thin undemineralized tooth sections. In 2011: Dr. Odont. Thesis entitled: Endodontic treatment: reason, prevention and quality - shaping factors. From 1993-1998: Assistant professor at the Department of Cariology and Endodontics, University of Copenhagen. 1999-2001: Received specific postgraduate endodontic specialist course in collaboration with the universities in Copenhagen, Denmark, Malmö and Gothenburg, Sweden. Certified member of European Society of Endodontology from 2001. From 1998: Associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Head of Endodontic since 2016. In 2012 he was visiting Scholar at Loma Linda University, US. From 2012-2015: Head of the Special Clinical Unit receiving referrals at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been Secretary in the Scandinavian Endodontic Society (SES) from 1999-2001. Twice hosted the SES biennial congress in Denmark. Past President of the Danish National Endodontic Society and past country representative for the European Society of Endodontology (ESE). He has been giving lectures worldwide in Europe, Asia, North and South America, covering the field of deep caries lesion pathology, treatments and quality-shaping factors concerning endodontic treatments. LB has authored and co-authored numerous international and national articles, including book chapters and reviews. Editor of Textbook of Endodontology, WiIey ,Blackwell 3. edition. One day weekly he is in in private practice devoted endodontic referrals. ORCID: 0000-0002-2183-6400.

I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.

Ashraf F. Fouad, D.D.S., M.S.

Dr. Fouad obtained his DDS, Certificate of Endodontics and MS at the University of Iowa.

He served on the faculty and in various administrative roles at University of Connecticut Health Center, the University of Maryland, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently Professor and Chair, Department of Endodontics, and Director, Advanced Endodontics Program, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Fouad has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 24 textbook chapters, and 140 abstracts. He edited and co-authored the textbooks: Endodontic Microbiology, as well as the fifth and sixth editions of Endodontics: Principles and Practice. He is a Diplomate and Past President of the American Board of Endodontics, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Endodontics and Dental Traumatology. He received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the International Association of Dental Research.

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Hal F. Duncan, B.D.S., M.C.D, PhD

Received his dental degree from the University of Glasgow and his 4-year endodontic speciality training in Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London. For ten years, he worked part-time in specialist referral endodontic practice. He completed his PhD in the University of Birmingham in pulp biology. As an Academic Professor and Consultant in Endodontics, he has led endodontic teaching, service delivery and research in Dublin Dental University Hospital (DDUH) for the last 15 years. He has published over 120 international peer-reviewed scientific articles, 40 research abstracts, 18 book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks. He was the primary author of the recent European Society of Endodontology (ESE) position statement on ‘Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp’ and is the lead of the ongoing ‘ESE S3-level Guidelines for the Treatment of Endodontic Disease’. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Endodontic Journal after being an Associate Editor for the International Endodontic Journal since 2014. Hal has completed three sponsored research fellowships in New York University/Rutgers University investigating the role of epigenetic-modifying agents on tooth regeneration. In DDUH, he currently maintains a research lab and is the principal supervisor of clinical and scientifically trained PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in basic and translational pulp biology and endodontics. Currently, he is the Director of Research in the DDUH, the Chair of Membership Committee of the ESE, a Member of the Executive Board of the ESE, the President Elect of the ESE, the President of the Irish Division of the IADR, the Vice-President of the Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the IADR and a Board Member of the Pan European Region of the IADR.

I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.