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Dentaltown Learning Online....Next Level Endodontics: Revascularization of Immature Necrotic Teeth - A Clinical Perspective. By Dr. Frank Setzer

Dentaltown Learning Online....Next Level Endodontics: Revascularization of Immature Necrotic Teeth - A Clinical Perspective. By Dr. Frank Setzer

7/5/2017 8:10:57 AM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 108
Dentaltown is pleased to present...Next Level Endodontics: Revascularization of Immature Necrotic Teeth - A Clinical Perspective.  By Dr. Frank Setzer.

This CE course can be found here....

http://www.dentaltown.com/onlinece/view/683/next-level-endodontics-revascularization-of-immature-necrotic-teeth-a-clinical-perspective




Root canal treatment is a highly successful procedure. However, the treatment of teeth with immature roots and pulp necrosis presents significant difficulties for the dentalclinician in regard to disinfection and filling of the wide root canal space and open apex. Traditional approaches involved apexification by long-term medication with calcium hydroxide to create a calcified barrier at the level of the open apex, or a short-term apexification with artificial materials as an apical stop, each providing for a predictable root filling after the procedure was completed. However, these traditional techniques often resulted in subsequent root fractures due to the thin root walls remaining even after successful apexification procedures.
Today, for the practicing clinician, the revascularization of immature necrotic teeth has become an alternative to apexification. Current techniques involve disinfecting irrigation, placement of calcium hydroxide or an antibiotic paste as a temporary medication, and the instigation of a blood clot within the root canal space to establish the revascularization process with continued root growth, closure of the apex, and thickening of the root walls. The lecture discusses advantages and disadvantages of traditional apexification versus current revascularization techniques and reviews the correct procedure step-by-step both on a biological and clinical basis.

Dr. Setzer graduated from the Dental School of the Friedrich- Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1995, where he also received his doctoral degree in 1998. He pursued his endodontic specialty training at the University of Pennsylvania after working for nine years in a multi-specialist private practice as associate and partner. Dr. Setzer graduated from the endodontic program of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, receiving the Louis I Grossman Postdoctoral Student Award in Endodontics. He earned a Master of Science in Oral Biology and a DMD degree in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Setzer serves as the Clinic Director and Pre-Doctoral Program Director at the Department of Endodontics of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Setzer lectures on several topics of endodontics throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. He has authored articles on endodontics in peer-review journals and serves as Associate Editor for Endodontics for Quintessence International and, amongst other journals, on the scientific advisory board of Journal of Endodontics, International Endodontic Journal and Journal of the American Dental Association.


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