Lectures-Digital Dental-Endodontics-Implant-Operative-Oral Surgery

One appointment Inlays/Onlays; Durable, Economical, and Appreciated

LOD-087-00

Dr. Lorin F. Berland

34 min

Patients are demanding aesthetic, yet reliable alternatives to the replacement of their defective amalgam restorations. Learn the rationale for replacing defective amalgam restorations while conserving and reinforcing the remaining tooth structure. Systematic methods will be detailed about amalgam and caries removal, insulation, proper preparation, impression taking, inlay/onlay fabrication, and final cementation techniques.

Composite Resins in Contemporary Practice

LOD-086-00

Dr. Ronald Jackson

87 min

The public today want their dentistry less invasive and more aesthetic. Direct composite resin does both and its use in dentistry is rising rapidly. However, these materials have undergone significant evolution in recent years and dentists are challenged to keep current. In addition, esthetic standards have been raised and quality outcomes redefined by todays educated patient. This presentation will focus on understanding the new composite materials specifically developed for anterior and posterior use and illustrate the key elements for their successful application.

Endodontic Rotary Instrumentation - How to achieve maximum efficiency while eliminating failure

LOD-085-00

Dr. John T. McSpadden

63 min

There may be more instrumentation technique recommendations than there are endodontic instruments available. Obviously, all cannot be the 'best' approach. Are these techniques confusing motion with accomplishment and time with safety? This presentation describes 6 basic principles that enable the practitioner to maximize endodontic rotary instrumentation in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and safety for any type endodontic file available today and as they become available in the future. Saving valuable time and eliminating pernicious stress are the result.

The use of MTA in Clinical and Surgical Endodontics

LOD-082-00

Dr. Arnaldo Castellucci

88 min

Recently, Dr. Mahmoud Torabinejad of Loma Linda University, California, has developed a new cement named Mineral Trioxide Aggregate which appears to have all of the characteristics requested of the ideal cement to seal pathways of communications between the pulp and the oral cavity (mechanical and carious pulp exposures), and between the root canal system and the periodontium (iatrogenic perforations, open apices, resorbed apices, root-end preparations). MTA is an endodontic cement that is extremely biocompatible, capable of stimulating healing and osteogenesis, and is hydrophilic. MTA is a powder that consists of fine trioxides (Tricalcium oxide, Silicate oxide, Bismute oxide) and other hydrophilic particles (Tricalcium silicate, Tricalcium aluminate, responsible for the chemical and physical properties of this aggregate), which set in the presence of moisture. Hydration of the powder results in formation of a colloidal gel with a pH of 12.5, that solidifies to a hard solid structure in approximately three-four hours. This cement is different from other materials currently in use because of its biocompatibility, antibacterial properties, marginal adaptation and sealing properties, and its hydrophilic nature. The characteristic that distinguishes MTA from other materials used to date in endodontics is its hydrophilic properties. Materials used to repair perforations, to seal the retro-preparation in surgical endodontics, to close open apices, or to protect the pulp in direct pulp capping, are inevitably in contact with blood and other tissue fluids. Moisture may be an important factor due to its potential effects on the physical properties and sealing ability of the restorative materials. As shown by Torabinejad et al., MTA is the only material that is not affected by moisture or blood contamination: the presence or absence or blood seems not to affect the sealing ability of the mineral trioxide aggregate. During the presentation, several cases of treatment with MTA will be showed. Aim of the presentation is to show the indications and the technique for the correct use of this relatively new material: how to seal an open apex, how to repair a strip-perforation under the microscope, how to protect a pulp exposure to perform a direct pulp capping, how to use MTA during surgery to seal the retroprep. In conclusion, the viewers should be able to appreciate the advantages of this material, which made our treatments more predictable and gave us the possibility to save teeth otherwise condemned to extraction.

Impression Techniques in Implant Dentistry

LOD-081-00

Dr. Christopher Ho

72 min

This lecture covers the various principles and procedures of accurate impression taking. The requirements of impression materials will be discussed and recommendations made as to the most reliable materials to use along with directions on the use of custom vs. stock trays.Different impression techniques will be discussed with a step by step discussion highlighted with videos of the different procedures. Demonstration of capturing developed soft tissue profiles around implants will be shown, and explanation of the passive fit around multiple unit fixed prostheses covered.

Advanced Implant Surgery - Site Development, Function and Esthetics (ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY)

LOD-079-00

Prof. Massimo Simion

50 min

Advanced Implant Surgery - Site Development, Function and Esthetics (ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY)

Chirurgia Implantare avanzata di mascellari totalmente edentuli (ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY)

LOD-078-00

Prof. Massimo Simion

47 min

Chirurgia Implantare avanzata di mascellari totalmente edentuli (ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY)

Surgical Microscope for Periodontal Plastic Surgery & Implants (JAPANESE LANGUAGE ONLY)

LOD-077-00j