Biblioteca - Fundación Universitaria CIEO

Incluye indice

Section I: Examination and diagnosis -- Medical evaluation and antibiotic precautions -- Clinical examination and assessment of an endodontic patient -- Radiographic examination and interpretation -- Diagnosis -- Treatment documentation and record keeping

Section II: Treatment strategies and decision-making -- Managing the apprehensive patient -- Endodontic treatment planning: tooth-related considerations -- Endodontic vs implant therapy for a single tooth -- Infection and success rates -- Presenting a treatment plan to a patient

Section III: Preparation for treatment -- Endodontic instruments and equipment -- Clinical infection control -- Value of magnification -- Local anesthesia -- Guidelines for rubber dam use

Section IV: Canal instrumentation: shaping, disinfection, and case management -- Access preparation and orifice identification -- Instrument and material choices -- Root canal irrigation -- Strategies to reach the root apex -- Shaping and cleaning the anatomically uncomplicated canal -- Shaping and cleaning the anatomically complicated canal -- Locating and opening the mineralized canal -- Managing the obstructed canal -- Mishaps during root canal shaping -- Mishaps in shaping the apical third -- Pain after cleaning and shaping -- Single-visit vs multiple-visit therapy -- Interappointment temporization -- Final steps before obturation

Section V: Endodontic obturation -- Guidelines for sealers and solid core materials -- Materials and methods of obturation -- Posttreatment pain after obturation -- Responding to posttreatment disease -- Challenges and mishaps in obturation

Section VI: Emergency and adjunctive endodontic procedures -- Endodontic emergencies and their treatment -- Vital pulp capping -- Apexogenesis and pulpotomy -- Apexification -- Pulpal treatment in primary teeth -- Treating the avulsed tooth -- Bleaching techniques for nonvital and vital teeth -- Restoration of endodontically treated teeth