02/06/2020
Dear All,
Thank you all for helping me find a live demonstration patient for tomorrow’s hands-on course. The best of several nominated was a lower C-shaped molar—number 18—on a patient who will be cooperative (Xanax will be on board to ensure that).
It will be a good teaching case as C-shaped molars can have broad isthmus areas between canals.
The case begins at 1:30pm tomorrow, February 6, and should be finished near 3:30pm. I want to invite all of you to watch if you have the time from patient treatment. If not, it will be recorded and posted on my website (delendo.com) by Friday afternoon.
The Study Club is designed to go topic-by-topic every month, so we won’t get to obturation until October, leaving you all kind of hanging until then. My solution to that conundrum is to share the live demos I broadcast from our monthly two-day hands-on courses. We have had over 100,000 view since we began broadcasting these a year ago.
Each case is a complete access-to-obturation single-visit procedure (God-willing), so you will get to see it all every month. Tomorrow I will:
• Use a guided access bur to cut a minimally-invasive access cavity;
• Use rotary file to negotiate each canal (I seldom use hand files for that anymore).
• Demonstrate management of apical impediments, since I’m pretty sure the distal canal has a wicked apical hook
• Show how to use the EndoVac negative pressure irrigation system to clean all the canals simultaneously. (Actually, my assistant Katie will do that while I field questions from the 300+ viewers);
• Fill the root canal system with bioceramic sealer and my Continuous Wave of Condensation warm gutta percha method.
It could be epic, so please watch in real-time or the recorded version afterwards.
See you at apex,
LSB
