Endodontics

What’s New in Rotary Instrumentation?: Part 2

In Part 1 of this article we introduced the new LightSpeed LSX system (Discus Dental Endodontics). In Part 2 we present the recommended.

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Endodontics

Access: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Endodontic treatment can be thought of as a series of steps. Each step in the treatment sequence sets up for the next. If.

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Endodontics

What’s New in Ni-Ti Rotary Instrumentation: Part 1

With most things in life, change is inevitable, and endodontics is no exception. However, our commitment to a higher success rate for root.

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Endodontics

Negotiating Challenging Mid Root Curvatures: Rounding the Bend

Mid root curvatures can be every bit as vexing as their apical counterparts, especially where the coronal third is relatively straight and the.

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Endodontics

Endodontic Access Preparation: An Opening for Success

Endodontic performance is enhanced when clinicians thoughtfully view different horizontally angulated, preoperative radiographic images, visualize minimally invasive, yet complete, treatment, then use this.

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Endodontics

From Root Canal to Art Form: Achieving Transcendence

How does any endeavor move from OK to good, from exceptional to elegant, and then ultimately to the level of an art form?.

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Endodontics

Progressive Taper Technology: Rationale and Clinical Technique for the New ProTaper Universal System

ProTaper rotary technology (DENTSPLY Tulsa Dental) was launched in the United States in the spring of 2001. The required “waves of shaping” of.

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Endodontics

Retreatment of a Failed Endodontic Case

The advances in endodontics in the last 20 years have truly made it an easier and enjoyable process from a general practitioner’s point.

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Endodontics

The Surgical Operating Microscope: Pushing the Boundaries of the Possible in Dentistry

In August 1992 in Dentistry Today, I wrote an article, “The SOM: A Quantum Leap for Endodontics.” In the article I made the.

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Endodontics

My Endodontic Cookbook Is Lost: Michelangelo Versus Painting by Numbers

Some endodontic manufacturers have sold their products as “plug-and-play” systems. Via a technique card of some kind, the clinician is instructed to take.

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