Course No: BC08-10 CDE Credits: 3 (Lecture)
Treating the “Untreatable”:
The Essence of Advanced Endodontics
Friday, June 4, 2010 - morning session only
Location: University of Toronto Centre for Continuing Dental Education, 1440 Don Mills Road, Toronto, ON
Part of the Breakfast Club Series
Dr. Shimon Friedman
Course Outline
Many specific clinical conditions are commonly considered as untreatable by way of conventional endodontic treatment. These conditions include, among others: extensive coronal breakdown, root canal obstruction by sharp curvature, calcification or broken instrument, extreme anatomic aberrations, perforating root resorption, probing depth to the apex, iatrogenic perforation, horizontal and vertical root fractures, and persistent disease after previous endodontic treatment.
Teeth affected by these conditions are usually treated surgically or extracted. However, thanks to better understanding of endodontic disease and improved instruments, materials and techniques, many of these teeth can be treated non-surgically and retained in function.
Such treatment may greatly benefit patients, particularly when replacement with prosthetic devices is not an option. Being able to treat these “untreatable” conditions is what defines advanced endodontics. During this lecture, treatment of conditions that are commonly considered “untreatable” will be demonstrated with typical clinical examples.
Tuition*
(includes continental breakfast and morning break)
| Prior to May 21, 2010 | After May 21, 2010 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dentists: | $125 | $135 |
| Dental Staff: | $95 | $95 |
Course Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am
*Register for all 8 of the Breakfast Club programs and save $200 (Dentists) / $210 (Staff).
Tuition for 8 Programs: $800 Dentist
Tuition for 8 Programs: $550 Staff
Biography
Dr. Shimon Friedman, D.M.D, is currently Professor and Head of Endodontics, and Director of the M.Sc. Endodontics Program at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. He received both the D.M.D. degree (1975) and the certificate in endodontics (1983) from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem, where he had taught for 16 years before assuming his current position in Toronto. He had also spent one year as a visiting professor at the School of Dentistry, Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Friedman is board-certified in endodontics by the Scientific Council of the Israel Dental Association. He had served as a Scientific Council examiner (1983-1992), and as Chairman of the Israel Endodontic Society (1985-1988). Dr. Friedman is a member of the American Association of Endodontists, the Canadian Academy of Endodontics, the Ontario Society of Endodontists and the Finnish Dental Society Apollonina. He has served on the editorial boards of the International Endodontic Journal, Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine, Radiology and Endodontics, Endodontics & Dental Traumatology, Endodontic Topics, Practical Periodontics and Esthetic Dentistry and Alpha Omegan. He presently serves as Co-chief Editor of Visual Endodontic Curriculum. Dr. Friedman has published 125 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 10 textbook chapters and many research abstracts. He has presented over 220 national and international lectures. In recognition of his research contributions, Dr. Friedman was awarded the 2008 Louis I. Grossman Award by the American Association of Endodontists. Dr. Friedman also maintains a private practice limited to Endodontics in Toronto.
