Hands On Endodontics (MK25102016)

AvailabilityCourse has taken place
SubjectEndodontics
DescriptionThe course will involve both lectures and hands on delivered in a workshop style. This is a busy interactive day which will give you the confidence and knowledge to carry out root canal treatment more successfully in your practice. Participants will prepare and obturate both plastic blocks and extracted teeth using rotary instruments and warm gutta percha techniques. Please bring 2 extracted molars with access cavities prepared and magnifying loupes if used in practice.
Additional informationThis course is intended for GDPs

Nigel Foot has been a Specialist Endodontist at the Briars Dental Centre since 1995. He was one of the first Endodontists in the UK to be admitted to the Endodontic Specialist Register in 1999. He gained his MSc in Endodontics in 1994 from Guys and the Eastman Dental Schools having qualified as a dentist from Newcastle University in 1979. In 1996, he gained the membership in Restorative Dentistry (Endodontics), at the Royal College of Surgeons, London and Glasgow



Nigel has a keen interest in endodontic education and has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He held a part-time teaching post at Guys and St. Thomas’s Dental School from 1994 – 2001. He is currently a part-time teacher at the Eastman Continuing Professional Development Centre in London and for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He lectures on endodontics to general practitioner groups within the UK and has lectured to endodontists abroad in Italy, the Irish Republic and Sweden and contributed to several textbooks on endodontics.



VenueMilton Keynes Postgraduate Centre, Milton Keynes  View details
Date & timeTuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30 to 16:45
LecturerMr Nigel Foot  View details
Target audience

Mandatory: Dental Foundation Trainee, or Forces Dental Officer, or NHS Dentist, or Non-NHS Dentist

Development outcomeNo development outcome
Course styleHands-on
Core topicNo core topic
CPD hours6:00
Cost£110.00
Aims
  1. Diagnosis,Treatment Planning, Decision making - to treat or not to treat. The importance of radiographs in endodontics.
  2. Access cavities To be competent in hand and rotary preparation with contemporary nickel titanium systems
  3. To be competent in filling the root canal using cold and warm guttapercha techniques
  4. Review (i) the restoration of a tooth following endodontic treatment. (ii) prognosis and follow up (iii) discuss single versus multiple visits