S-5 Endodontic Microsurgery: A Dying Art or Rising Phoenix
CE Hours: 1.5
Description: Apical surgery was once a significant component of Post-Graduate education and clinical practice; the transition to a microsurgical approach was heralded by a decline not only in the breadth of graduate training, but the prevalence of private practice cases as well. A shift in retreatment expertise is a partial explanation, but not the only one. Qualified mentors, sophisticated armamentarium and shifting treatment paradigms are the denominators in either the demise of the practice or, more likely, the evolution of the modern Endodontic Microsurgical training. Advances in technique and technology allow the surgeon to plan in a digital environment, design precision aids for acquisition to the field and utilize elegant resection and refinement armamentarium. This presentation examines the challenges of the past and present, and how these are affecting an evolution and revolution in the microsurgical arena.
Learning Objectives:
- Implement the various imaging technologies in a “Virtual Surgery™” digital environment to develop an effective and appropriate treatment plan
- Compare the traditional root end operative procedures with modern Piezosurgical approaches
- Assess the application and effectiveness of the laser for hard and soft tissue applications
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Stephen P. Niemczyk, DMD
Dr. Niemczyk graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, receiving his D.M.D. in 1982 and his postgraduate Endodontic certificate in 1984. Since 1995, Dr. Niemczyk has been the Director of Endodontic Microsurgery at the IB Bender Postdoctoral Endodontic Program at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and was recently named the Assistant Program Director in 2018. He is the 2020 recipient of the AAE Calvin D. Torneck Part-Time Educator Award, and also serves as a surgical consultant to the Naval Postgraduate Endodontic Program at the Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, and the U. S. Army Endodontic Residency Program in Fort Gordon, GA.
Dr. Niemczyk has lectured extensively in the U.S., Central America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia on topics ranging from Microsurgery and Intentional Replantation to advances in Non-Surgical Endodontics and Cone-Beam CT. He has authored numerous papers, chapters on Microsurgery in Dental Clinics of North America, Ingle’s Endodontics 7th Edition and CBCT in Non-Surgical Retreatment. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Journal of Endodontics and the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine and Pathology. He is the founder of Endodontic Microsurgical Innovations, dedicated to the development of new treatment techniques and instrumentation. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics, and maintains a full-time practice limited to Endodontics in Drexel Hill, PA.
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