SP-7 Clinical Management of Calcified Canals with Static Guided Endodontics
CE Hours: 1.0
Description: Pulp canal obliteration is a significant risk factor for endodontic insufficiency, and the clinical treatment approach is challenging even for specialists. Accessing root canals that may be calcified can present complications in locating, penetrating, and negotiating pulp spaces. Efforts to reduce the risk of technical errors and treatment time using new technologies, such as intraoral scanners and their software and 3D printers, have resulted in the development of a therapeutic approach to locate calcified root canals: endodontic guides or guided endodontics. During the present lecture, it will be described the therapeutic approach used in a series of cases of endodontic pathology requiring endodontic treatment of root canals, with different degrees of pulp canal obliteration. In all cases, virtually planned guided endodontics allowed access to obliterated pulp spaces. Once the canals were negotiated, endodontic treatment could be performed adequately. The present results showed static guided endodontics to be a safe accurate treatment approach in these clinical cases and a valuable tool to negotiate calcified root canals, reducing working time, risk of excessive removal of tooth structure, and iatrogenic damage to the root.
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate different treatment options for clinical management of calcified canals.
- Describe the steps to carry out the guided endodontics procedure, in cases of obliterated canals.
- Perform static guided endodontics as a safe and predictable procedure to manage calcified canals.
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Jorge C. Alberdi, DDS
* Dentist, graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Rosario (UNR), Rosario, Argentina. Year 2003.
• PhD in Health Sciences, Catholic University of Córdoba (UCC), Argentina. Year 2023.
• Specialist in Endodontics
• Professor of the Specialty Career Endodontics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Córdoba (UCC), Argentina.
• Director of Postgraduate Clinical Endodontics Course at the Odontological Circle of Rosario
• Director of the Course "Microscopy and new technologies in Endodontics" at the Troiano Dentistry Institute, Rosario, Argentina.
• Private Practice in Endodontics in Las Rosas, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and Member of the Troiano Dentistry Institute, Rosario, Argentina.
• Lecturer on Endodontics and Post-endodontic Restoration.
• Speaker at the AAE Meeting 2019 in Montreal, Canada; 2022 in Phoenix, USA, and in 2023 in Chicago, USA.
• Speaker on Endodontics at national and international events in countries such as Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, among others.
• Author and co-author of research articles and case reports in national and international journals.
• Honorable Mention in the Journal of Endodontics Awards 2022 for the article: "Effects of Endodontic Infections on the Maxillary Sinus: A Case
Series of Treatment Outcome", published in the JOE with Dr. José Siqueira and colleagues.
• Reviewer for the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA).
• Member of the Argentine Society of Endodontics (SAE), the Odontological Circle of Rosario (COR), and the American Association of Endodontists (AAE).
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.