S-10 Surgical Choices for the Compromised Tooth: Root Resection, Hemisection or Autotransplantation
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Description: The preservation of natural teeth has regained interest over replacement with dental implants. However, not all situations can be solved by classical initial and secondary endodontic treatment, or surgical retreatment. Endodontists should not only have the expertise in standard endodontic microsurgery, but also include root resection, hemisection or autotransplantation in their repertoire. This lecture will review indications, techniques, and prognosis for these alternative surgical choices the compromised teeth
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how to include a patient’s lifecycle in the decision making process how to save a tooth
- Be knowledgable about the outcome of resective and transplantation techniques
- Make the distinction between crown and root resection
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Frank C. Setzer, D.M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Dr. Setzer graduated from the Dental School of the Friedrich- Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1995, where he also received his doctoral degree in 1998. He pursued his endodontic specialty training at the University of Pennsylvania after working for nine years in a multi-specialist private practice as associate and partner. Dr. Setzer graduated from the endodontic program of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, receiving the Louis I Grossman Postdoctoral Student Award in Endodontics. He earned a Master of Science in Oral Biology and a DMD degree in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Setzer serves as the Clinic Director and Pre-Doctoral Program Director at the Department of Endodontics of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Setzer lectures on several topics of endodontics throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. He has authored articles on endodontics in peer-review journals and serves as Associate Editor for Endodontics for Quintessence International and, amongst other journals, on the scientific advisory board of Journal of Endodontics, International Endodontic Journal and Journal of the American Dental Association.
Speaker Disclosure
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.
