Endodontics Lab

Catalog description

This preclinical course includes lectures on the biological and clinical aspects of endodontics plus laboratory exercises to gain skills in accessing the pulp chambers, removing the pulp tissue within the lengths of the canals and establishing an environment that supports healing. The biologic aspects of the lectures include discussions of the pulp and periapical diseases, diagnostic and treatment procedures, selection of patients, and medications in endodontics. Clinical lectures are devoted to procedures used in preparing and filling root canals, discussion of the materials used supported by documented research in juried journals, restoration of endodontically treated teeth and clinic orientation. During laboratory exercises, student access, instrument, and obturate root canals on extracted human teeth. Students may treat patients in the endodontic clinic after successful completion of the preclinical course and the sophomore endodontic preclinical competency exams.