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Gentle Dentist or Creepy Santa?

December 20, 2018 by reid pullen Leave a Comment

Easing the patients fear is an important part of dental treatment. By clearing explaining treatment and getting the patient fully anesthetized we can continue as the Gentle dentist and not creepy Santa.

Don’t be a Creepy Santa.

Filed Under: Endodontic Education, Patient Communications, Patient Management, Uncategorized Tagged With: Endodontic Teaching, Learning Endodontics, Root Canal Academy, Root Canal Procedure

Learning Lessons Case #3 “Shaping”

December 18, 2018 by reid pullen Leave a Comment

Greetings Clinicians,

I’m proud to announce a preview of our third case in Learning Lessons Book #1 — on shaping. Learning Lessons are concise presentations of some of the most interesting and important problems–and their solutions–that I have come across in my clinical practice and teaching. Learning Lessons topics are covered in more detail in RootCanalAcademy.com Member Library media, including video, audio, procedure charts, articles, and more. Our Member Library is a superb value and accessible 24/7 to fit your schedule and learning pace. If you are not a member and want to see some of my teaching material, consider joining our Free Library. Go to RootCanalAcademy.com and be Better Tomorrow!

Enjoy our third case on shaping in the forthcoming Learning Lessons Book #1. We will publish the entire volume in our current 2018-2019 Winter campaign. I welcome comments!

Best!
Reid
ReidPullen@RootCanalAcademy.com

 

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Filed Under: Endodontic Education, Root Canal Education, Root Canal Playbook, Root Canal Procedure Teaching Tagged With: 4 Quarters of the Root Canal Game, Dentsply Sirona Endodontics, E3 Endodontics, Learning Lessons, Learning Root Canal Procedures, NiTi Shaping, Root Canal Academy, Root Canal Procedure, Shaping, WaveOne Gold

4 Quarters of the Root Canal Game Summary Graphic

November 27, 2018 by reid pullen Leave a Comment

 

Greetings Clinicians,
Here is a nice new graphic summarizing Root Canal Academy teaching. It puts on one page in a digestible format the complicated root canal process. My ‘4 Quarters’ teaching aims to organize the many sub procedures into a ‘football game’ format. Simple! Four quarters of procedures along with ‘pre game, halftime, and post game’ activities. I’ve found that this common format makes learning not only easier, but fun.  Participation is great; winning is fun!

The 4 Quarters graphic can serve as a refresher for our Resident Library members–who get our entire game plan!–as well as an orientation for Free Library members and those considering joining our Free Library (BTW it’s FREE!).

Enjoy,
Reid

Filed Under: Endodontic Education, Root Canal Education, Root Canal Playbook, Root Canal Procedure Teaching Tagged With: 4 Quarters of the Root Canal Game, E3 Endodontics, Learning Endodontics, RCA Playbook, Reid Pullen, Root Canal Academy

Haiti Mission Trip

November 5, 2018 by reid pullen Leave a Comment

Allie at Maison Orphanage

A few weeks back I had the distinct pleasure to spend a week in Haiti performing dental procedures (mostly extractions, cleaning and simple restorations). This was my fourth trip to Port-au-Prince and it was one of the best. This was the first dental trip that I was able to bring a portable dental unit (I had to purchase a small compressor in Haiti) which allowed more versatility in our dental procedures. My good buddy Dr. Jon Heezen from Minnesota came with me along with my sweet 13 year old daughter Allie Mae. Thank you Dr. Heezen for helping me extract the difficult ones. There was not one tooth in 6 days of practice that Jon couldn’t get out. It was quite impressive. I would like to thank Dentsply Sirona for the incredible generous donations along with Septodont who provided all of the anesthesia and needles, etc. Thank you to Dentsply Sirona, Benco, SunStar and Henry Schein for all of their amazing donations.

 

Dean of Dental School
Kids at Maison Orphanage

I was also able to meet the Dean of the dental school in Haiti and take a tour of the school. It is very exciting to see what they are trying to do in their country by training comprehensive dentists to make an impact on the people.

 

Thank You Haiti Mission Sponsors!

  • Benco
  • SunStar
  • Henry Schein
  • Dentsply Sirona 
  • Septodont

 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Benco, Dentsply Sirona, Haiti, Henry Schein, Mission Orphan, Septodont, Sunstar

Learn from Scary Root Canal Problems

October 30, 2018 by reid pullen Leave a Comment

Halloween can bring scary moments to both kids and adults. In my area we have Knott’s Scary Farm (converted Knott’s Berry Farm) that starts in September and runs through October 31st. As a kid, this was one of the scariest nights of my life and in the horror of it all I would do it again. This taught me a very valuable lesson: sometimes scary is okay and we grow and learn from it.

I wanted to discuss a Scary Lesson of my own that occurred in private practice and highlight what I did to recover from this near failure.

Here is a case where I separated an orifice opener in the MB canal of #15 (Figure 1,2). This tooth was necrotic and if I don’t get this out, this case is bound to fail. Oh did I tell you that this patient is older and very crabby? The perfect storm.

Scary Figure 1
Scary Figure 2

 

 

 

 

 

Problem: Separated file right at the MB orifice.

Solution: Ultrasonics.

I used a ProUltra #4 at lower power to trough around the file and pop it out of the canal (Figure 3). I used an EndoVac Macrocannula to remove it from the pulp chamber (Figure 4) so that it didn’t fall into another canal (another scary lesson that has happened to me). I then proceeded to finish the case as normal by using the ProTaper Gold series, sealing with Thermaseal Plus Ribbon sealer and gutta percha in a warm vertical condensation technique (Figure 5). I completed this case in 2 visits due to the mistake and canal difficulty (see palatal apical curvature in Figure 5).

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Filed Under: Endodontic Education, Root Canal Procedure Teaching Tagged With: Mistakes, Scary Lessons

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