SP-31 Can Calcium Silicate-based Sealer Cases Be Retreated? Evidence-based Solutions for Retreatment of Cases Containing a Calcium Silicate-based Sealer
CE Hours: 0.75
Description: A growing number of practitioners use calcium silicate-based sealers in root canal therapy. If the primary treatment has failed, non-surgical retreatment is considered the primary treatment option. However, the retreatability of cases incorporating a calcium silicate-based sealer is debatable as a specific, clinically acceptable solvent has yet to be developed. There are also few outcome studies concerning retreating these cases. This presentation will critically review the current studies addressing retreatment and retreatability of cases incorporating a calcium silicate-based sealer, and discuss methods to retrieve calcium silicate based-sealers combined with gutta-percha cones using different solutions, solvents, primary rotary files, retreatment designed files, heat-treated or non-heat-treated files, ultrasonic or sonic irrigation, in both straight or curved canals exhibiting short, flush with the apex, or overextended obturation.
Learning Objectives:
- Compare the efficacies of different solvents/irrigants and ultrasonic/sonic irrigation for retreatment cases incorporating a calcium silicate-based sealer
- Evaluate the efficacies of different rotary files for retreatment cases incorporating a calcium-silicate sealer
- Design specific retreatment strategies for clinical scenarios involving straight or curved canals, and patent or non-patent canal cases
Key:
Complete
Next
Failed
Available
Locked
Ji Wook Jeong, D.M.D., M.S.D.
Dr. Ji Wook Jeong graduated from Kyunghee University School of Dentistry in Seoul, South Korea, in 2001, and earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree from the same institution in 2001.He received his Associate Fellowship from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID) in 2008. Additionally, he served as an instructor and mentor for the Korea MaxiCourse® of the AAID from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, he graduated from the Advanced Program in Endodontics at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) at Houston, School of Dentistry, where he earned a Master of Science in Dentistry (MSD) and a certificate in the specialty of Endodontics. Since graduating, he has been working as a full-time faculty member at department of Endodontics, UTHSC Houston. Currently, he serves as the course director for Endodontic Surgery and the research director for the endodontic residents. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics in 2019. He is an active member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal of Endodontics, the Continuing Education Committee of the American Association of Endodontists, and the Research Committee of the Asian Pacific Endodontic Confederation.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose