T-1 Do You Know Instrument Retrieval Is Much Easier and More Predictable Than You Think It Is?
CE Hours: 1.5
Description: Literature shows more than 90 % of NiTi instruments fracture in the apical third or beyond the curve. Fractured instruments in those areas might be not only frustrating but challenging for those without enough experience in successful removal. Besides the challenge, instrument fracture immediately hinders the clinician from performing further treatment, and thus the outcome of the treatment will be compromised. The majority of clinicians would not want to make an attempt to retrieve the broken file in consideration of possibilities of having procedural accidents during the retrieval attempts mainly because instrument retrieval is considered unpredictable. The disadvantages of traditional instrument removal techniques are excessive removal of dentin, which may result in perforation or ledge formation. If the whole procedure for instrument retrieval can be standardized and simply made predictable, it will become no longer issues for every clinician. Therefore, in the lecture it will be described how to make the instrument retrieval procedure easy and predictable so that every single clinician involved in the mishap can also enjoy retrieving those fractured instruments.
- Distinguish easy cases from difficult ones for instrument retrieval.
- Explain how to make loosening the fractured instrument in preparation more predictable.
- Describe how to make it predictable to remove the fractured instrument in removal attempts.
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Yoshi Terauchi, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Dr. Terauchi is an adjunct professor at Department of Endodontics Faculty of Dentistry Bahçeşehir University İstanbul, Turkey, an adjunct clinical assistant professor of Endodontics at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and a part-time lecturer at Tokyo Medical & Dental University while maintaining a private practice limited to endodontics in Tokyo, Japan since 1998.
He earned his DDS in 1993 and completed his residency at Tokyo Medical & Dental University in 1995, where he also received his PhD from the Department of Endodontics. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals nationally and internationally. He also authored in several chapters in textbooks including the 11th and the 12th edition of “Pathways of the Pulp”, “Endodontics: the 6th edition of Principles and Practice”, and “Retreatments Solution for Periapical Disease of Endodontic Origin”. He has lectured nationally and internationally both onsite and online a number of times a year.
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Yoshitsugu Terauchi, D.D.S., PhD
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