The Essential Endo Course - Hands-On
For people who want to improve their endo skills. Join Dr Omar Ikram for this two day hands-on course on everything endodontics. This course will be held in the CSSL lab and simulate real life endodontic situations.
Description
Pulp and periapical diseases cause the patient and clinician significant stress.
Every single dentist needs to be able to treat endodontic disease, even if they refer the case later. Being attuned to the basic concepts is so vital to be able to offer this kind of care.
The purpose of this course is to demystify endodontics over two days, so that attendees improve their confidence in root canal treatment. This course will involve hands on training first using plastic blocks to get used to simplified two preparation systems (ProTaper ULTIMATE and Wave One Gold) and then graduating to extracted teeth, with both systems. Warm gutta percha obturation techniques will also be explored. In addition to lectures on preparation and filling techniques, there will be lectures on treatment of endodontic pain and complications in endodontics.
Topics include
- Hands on training using plastic blocks and the latest endodontic equipment
- The opportunity to use microscopes
- Filling canals using the latest techniques
- Tips and a lecture on how to get patients out of pain fast
- Lecture on complications in endodontics: what to do when they occur and how to avoid them.
LUNCH, MORNING AND AFTERNOON TEA
Learning objectives
- Obtain experience using new rotary system ProTaper ULTIMATE
- Gain hands on experience using a reciprocating system Wave one Gold
- Explore and use different root filling techniques.
- Discuss tips on how to reduce and prevent preoperative and post operative pain
- Recognise complications when they occur, how they affect outcome and how to advise the patient
Presenters
Dr Omar Ikram was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and attained his Bachelor of Dental Surgery qualification from Otago University, Dunedin. After graduation Omar worked in private practice in New Zealand and then moved to London in the UK where he attained significant experience in endodontics.
In 2005, he completed his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and began specialist training in Endodontology at King's College, London. His groundbreaking research at King's, entitled 'Micro-computed tomography of tooth tissue changes following root canal treatment and post space preparation' was published in the International Endodontic Journal during his final year. This research has enabled him to lecture in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia.
After completion of specialist training he re-located to Sydney and treated the State waitlist in Sydney Dental hospital, as well as establishing Specialist Endo Crows Nest.
In 2021 he co-created a popular smart phone App called ‘EndoPrep’ - designed to help dentists plan cases and gain more enthusiasm for Endodontics.
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