Endodontic teaching online with lessons in video, audio, blog, procedure graphics, and other root canal procedure resources.
Greetings Clinicians,
Our last post was a primer ‘Using Calcium Hydroxide,’ as part of our preview of the forthcoming publication of Learning Lessons. In this post, we present Case #5 ‘Removing Calcium Hydroxide.’ I get these questions about removing Ca(OH)2.
Here are answers and procedure tips in my Learning Lessons Case #5:
This is another sneak peak at a forthcoming series of Learning Lessons books to be available soon through RootCanalAcademy.com. See other lesson samples in this blog.
Happy endo my friends,
Reid
ReidPullen@RootCanalAcademy.com
Everyday, all day, we deal with patients. Some are easy, some are grumpy and some just are downright difficult. In our patient communication series we continue discussing how to effectively talk to the patient.
In these videos I discuss:
What do you say to a patient who has an apical lesion but doesn’t have any pain and does not want treatment? Try this little trick and see what happens.
What do you say to a patient regarding the success rate of endodontic treatment? Clear communication can alleviate later problems if the endodontic treatment fails.
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.
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.
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!
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