SP-40 A Practical Approach to Evidence-Based Endodontics
CE: 1.0
Course Description:
Dentists spend most of their time administering treatments to their patients. Many of the clinical questions that arise in clinical practice have to do with the effectiveness of treatments or interventions. This presentation will explain how to use a research report to inform clinical decisions pertaining to questions of therapy. It will introduce and describe the basic concepts for understanding randomized controlled trials, and how to critically appraise the validity, reliability and applicability of such studies.
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
- To describe the basic structure of randomized controlled trials from the information reported by authors.
- To identify potential sources of bias in randomized controlled trials.
- To describe the concept of validity in randomized controlled trials.
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Amir Azarpazhooh, D.D.S., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Dr. Amir Azarpazhooh received his DDS from Iran (2001), his speciality training at the University of Toronto (UofT) in Dental Public Health (2007) and endodontics (2010), followed by his PhD in 2011. He is a UofT full-time tenured Associate Professor, with cross-appointments to the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, and Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative, UofT. He is also the Head of both Divisions of Endodontics and Research at the Department of Dentistry, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
Currently, his attributed grants and awards total more than CDN $1.25M and these have enabled him to manage a strong group of graduate students over the years. To date, he has been an editor of a textbook on evidence-based dentistry, has published six book chapters, and more than 150 papers, abstracts and reports and has presented at over 50 national and international scientific meetings. He has been awarded nationally and internationally, by the Cochrane Canada, the Canadian Academy of Endodontics, and the American Association of Endodontists. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Endodontics.
Amir is a practicing endodontist, with part-time private practices in Toronto as well as a hospital practice in Mount Sinai Hospital providing endodontic care to patients when their medical, physical or mental status indicates the need for a hospital environment. Despite his heavy load of teaching, research and clinical practice, out of the office he enjoys life with his wife, travelling, cycling, photography, and gardening.
Amir Azarpazhooh, D.D.S., Ph.D., M.Sc.
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.
