Endodontics

Sonendo® Reaches 500,000 Patients Treated Milestone with the GentleWave® Procedure

by Sonendo, Inc.

Sonendo, Inc., a leading dental technology company and developer of the GentleWave® System, today announced that more than 500,000 patients have been treated with the GentleWave Procedure. Sonendo’s GentleWave System ushers in the next evolution in endodontic technology that is transforming a rapidly growing number of practices across North America. The GentleWave System uses patented, novel technology to … Read more

Recipient of the 2020 Dr. Gary Glassman Endodontic Achievement Award Announced

by dentalcorp

Dr. Jessica Yu Hsuan Hung has been selected as the first recipient of the Dr. Gary Glassman Endodontic Achievement Award. Established in 2019, this endowment fund was created to honour dentalcorp Chief Dental Officer Dr. Gary Glassman for his lifelong commitment to dentistry and to recognize and support graduating dental students at the University of … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Trouble Shooting Tips Using Your Apex Locator #5

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  Weekly Wisdom: Dr. Gary Glassman shares his final tip for trouble shooting when using your apex locator. Be sure to watch tips 1-4 here!     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for dental practitioners, including … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Trouble Shooting Tips Using Your Apex Locator #4

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  Weekly Wisdom: Dr. Gary Glassman shares his fourth tip for trouble shooting when using your apex locator. Stay tuned for the final tip from Gary coming soon!     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Trouble Shooting Tips Using Your Apex Locator #3

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  Weekly Wisdom: Dr. Gary Glassman shares his third tip for trouble shooting when using your apex locator. Stay tuned for the remaining 2 tips…coming soon!     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for dental practitioners, … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Trouble Shooting Tips Using Your Apex Locator #2

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  Weekly Wisdom: Dr. Gary Glassman shares his second tip for trouble shooting when using your apex locator. Stay tuned for tips 3-5…coming soon!     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for dental practitioners, including 3D … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Trouble Shooting Tips Using Your Apex Locator #1

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   Weekly Wisdom: Dr. Gary Glassman shares his first tip for trouble shooting when using your apex locator. Stay tuned for tips 2-5…coming soon!     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for dental practitioners, including 3D … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Creating a Proper Flowing Glidepath

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  In this episode of Weekly Wisdom, Dr. Gary Glassman returns to share another Endodontics tip with us!     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for dental practitioners, including 3D imaging systems, panoramic and cephalometric imaging … Read more

American Association of Endodontists Launches Dedicated Newsroom Website

by American Association of Endodontists

The American Association of Endodontists, the dental specialty organization representing more than 8,000 members, today announced it has launched a Newsroom website designed with the media and public in mind. The sleek new site serves as a meaningful way to elevate endodontics and endodontists, and touts the importance of saving the natural dentition through root … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Getting Down the Calcified Canal

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  Weekly Wisdom: Dr. Gary Glassman returns to the series with another Endodontic tip about getting down the calcified canal.     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for dental practitioners, including 3D imaging systems, panoramic and … Read more

Changing The Way We See Caries – Literally

by Lou Shuman, DMD, CAGS, CEO and Founder of Cellerant Consulting
GreenMark Biomedical

GreenMark Biomedical uses non-invasive nanotechnology to rethink how dental professionals will diagnose and treat carious lesions Typically the purview of science fiction writers and medical researchers, nanotechnology isn’t something dental professionals are asked to think about very often, let alone incorporate into their daily clinical practice. As more people learn about what GreenMark Biomedical makes … Read more

Limited FOV CBVT in Endodontics – 3 Years Later and Never Looking Back

by Geoffrey L. Sas, DDS, FRCD(C), Dip. ABE
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In Endodontics, a clinical examination and diagnostic imaging are both essential components before making a pre-operative diagnosis. The process of selecting a treatment option specifically of whether to extract or retain a tooth can often be complex. Conventional 2-dimensional imaging is still the most popular imaging modality in endodontics. However, the potential of periapical imaging … Read more

“Managing Endodontic Emergencies in the COVID-19 Era”

by Manor Haas, DDS, Cert. Endo.
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Introduction Imagine the following scenario. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you can only treat patients with acute emergencies, in order to help slow or stop the spread of the coronavirus. However, a patient calls you complaining of a severe tooth ache or swelling that you must somehow manage. You may wonder if you could or … Read more

Armamentarium for Dentin Conservation During Endodontic Treatment

by Bobby Nadeau, DDS, MS; Dale Jung, DDS; Viraj Vora, DDS, MS
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Introduction Primum non nocere – “first do no harm”–Hippocrates In today’s society, as life expectancy increases, patients expect their teeth to last a lifetime as healthy dentition is important for a good quality of life.1-4 Endodontic therapy is usually the last resort to retain natural teeth and teeth requiring root canal treatment are often structurally … Read more

The Evolving Look of ‘The Look’

by John West, DDS, MSD
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Introduction “The pulp is a big issue about a little tissue.” This quote is credited to early endodontic educator Dr. Sam Seltzer of Philadelphia. Nothing has changed. Restorative dentists have discovered that endodontics is one of the fastest ways to grow their practices, and, therefore, most dentists want to add more endodontic procedures to their … Read more

Minimally Invasive Endodontics Using a New Single-File Rotary System

by Peet J. van der Vyver, BChD, MSc, PhD; Martin Vorster, BChD, MSc ; Ove A Peters, DMD, MS, PhD
TruNatomy

Introduction The long-term retention of root canal treated teeth depends on many factors but it has become evident that the most common reasons for extraction of these teeth are ‘large carious lesion’ or ‘unrestorable tooth’, followed by ‘tooth fracture’, ‘periodontal disease’ and last of all, ‘endodontically related disease’ (Ng, Mann and Gulabivala, 2010). Moreover, it … Read more

Continuous Wave of Condensation Revisited: A New Cordless Obturation System

by Gary Glassman, DDS, FRCD(C)
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The main objective of endodontic treatment is the prevention and/or the elimination of apical periodontitis. This is achieved by instrumentation, disinfection, and obturation of the root canal system in three dimensions. Gutta percha is the most widely used and accepted obturation material because of its biocompatibility, inertness, dimensional stability, compactability, plasticity when heated, and ease … Read more

Handling the Stress of Practicing Dentistry: The Story of a Recovering Perfectionist!

by Sally Safa, DDS, MSc (Perio), FRCD(C)
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In 2014, I was published in the Ontario Dentist journal pleading for speakers and content that could address the stress that dentists incur day after day and ways in which to successfully handle it. I can’t believe that six years later, that I would actually be that person! When I wrote this letter to the … Read more

Dentistry in the Coronavirus Era

by Manor Haas, DDS, Cert. Endo.
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It’s fair to say that day-to-day life and dentistry as we’ve known it have been turned upside down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overnight, we went from normal, day-to-day dental care to a near medically induced coma with many, if not most, dental offices shutting their doors. Even though these are fluid times, the common … Read more

Weekly Wisdom: Tips for Facilitating Root Canals

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  In this week’s Weekly Wisdom video, Dr Gary Glassman shares some tips and tricks to make facilitating root canal procedures more comfortable for yourself and your patients.     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox each week!   Sponsored by  Carestream Dental offers solutions for … Read more