By Stephane Simon

Lesson program:
– New classification of pulpitis
– The aim of an endodontic treatment
– The esthetic perspective of an endodontic treatment
– Diagnosis, decision making, and the expectation of endodontic treatment
– The role of inflammation in pulp defense but also in pulp healing
– Histology of pulp inflammation
– The key factors that have influence on the prognosis of pulp vitality preservation techniques
– The key factors to take into account when choosing between pulp capping or pulp chamber pulpotomy
– The key factors to take into consideration for selecting the capping material
– Managing treatment failures and retreatments.
– Clinical cases.

Duration: 1 h 28 min

By Stephane Simon

Lesson program:
– Immature teeth particularities
– Apexogenesis
– Apexification and MTA
– How understanding of biology will help the clinician to better select clinical cases for regenerative procedures
– Revitalization and Revascularization
– Advantages of revitalization and apexification
– Contraindications of revitalization and apexification
– Tissue engineering: stem cells, growth factors, and scaffold dental pulp
– Repair vs. Regeneration
– Outcomes:
- patient-based outcome
- clinician-based outcome
- scientist-based outcome.
– Revitalization of mature teeth
– The clinical factors to take into account when selecting one technique or the other depending on the clinical situation.

Duration: 1 h 8 min

By Virinder Goyal

Lesson program:
– Dental trauma classification
– The clinical and radiographic features of:
- enamel fractures
- uncomplicated crown fractures
- complicated crown fractures
- crown-root fractures
- root fractures
- concussion
- subluxation
- luxations (lateral, extrusive and intrusive).
– Diagnostic tests and procedures used in examining patients with dental injuries
– Possible responses of pulp and periradicular tissues to the injury
– Treatment protocols (immediate and long term) for various types of traumatic injuries
– Outcomes of traumatic dental injuries
– Pulp capping, apexification and apexogenesis: detailed protocols
– Regenerative endodontic: detailed protocols.

Duration: 1 h 20 min

By Anup Panda

Lesson program:
– Advantages of stainless steel crowns
– Indications for stainless steel crowns
– Crown selection
– Evaluation of the crown reduction and preparation: occlusal, proximal and peripheral
– The instruments and materials needed to work with stainless steel crowns
– Step-by-step preparation, seating and fixing of the stainless steel crown
– Contraindication for SS crown placement
– Modification in crown size: undersized and oversized crowns
– SSC and abutments as a space maintainer
– Anterior crossbite correction with SSC
– Open Face SSC: the aesthetic version of SSC
– The HALL Technique: indications, contraindications, methods, instruments, and advantages
– The success and failure criteria of conventional crown restorations and the HALL technique crowns.

Duration: 1 h 20 min

By Anup Panda

Lesson program:
– The zones of carious dentin: affected dentin and infected dentin
– Understanding the dentin terminology: tertiary, reactionary, reparative, infected, and affected dentin
– Management of deep caries in primary teeth
– Clinical diagnosis of a pulpal condition
– Stepwise (two-step) caries excavation
– Indirect Pulp Capping (IPC): rationale, indications, and contraindications
– The clinical procedures for indirect pulp capping
– Direct pulp capping: treatment objectives, indications, and treatment considerations
– The salient features of successful pulp capping
– The ideal properties for pulp capping materials
– Histological changes after pulp capping
– Keys to clinical success with pulp capping.

Duration: 55 min

By Sanchit Paul, Abhishek S. Soni

Lesson program:
– Full coverage crown restoration for primary teeth
– Communication with parents. Motivation for crowns
– Indications and contraindications for the use of crowns in children
– Necessary equipment, tools and materials
– X-ray examination before and after treatment
– Stainless Steel Crowns:
- Indications, contraindications, advantages and disadvantages
- Tooth preparation protocols
- Cementation
- Postoperative instructions.
– The HALL technique:
- Indications, contraindications, advantages and disadvantages
- Chairside protocol of the technique.
– Strip crowns:
- Indications, contraindications, advantages and disadvantages
- Tooth preparation protocols
- Composite strip crowns
- Glass ionomer strip crowns
- Injection moulding technique.
– Zirconia crowns in pediatric dentistry:
- Posterior and anterior zirconia crowns
- The tissue attachment to zirconia
- Case selection
- Tooth preparation protocols
- Methods for controlling hemorrhage
- Crowns try-in and common errors
- Cementation.
– Postoperative period and general recommendations
– Difficulties, complications and ways to solve them
– Clinical tips and tricks.

Duration: 2 h 29 min

By Juan Fernando Yepes

Lesson program:
– Evidence-based guidelines on non-restorative treatments of cavitated and non-cavitated carious lesions in primary and permanent dentitions
– Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF): advantages, indications, and clinical application
– Caries management challenges of uncooperative and medically compromised patients
– Management of early childhood caries: caries prevention vs arrest
– Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART)
– Silver Modified Atraumatic Restorative Technique (SMART)
– Silver Modified Interim Therapeutic Restoration (SMITR)
– The HALL technique: advantages, indications, and clinical application
– HALL technique vs conventional SSC
– Resin sealant technique: indications and clinical application
– Resin Infiltration: indications and clinical application
– Glass Ionomer Cement (GIC) and Resin Modified Glass Ionomer Cement (RMGIC): advantages, indication, and clinical application
– Closed and Open Sandwich Technique
– The critical clinical applications of dentin substitutes (Biodentin ® and MTA®).

Duration: 1 h 57 min

By Rocio Lazo

Lesson program:
– What is the meaning of Minimally Invasive Dentistry (MID):
- Non-restorative caries control
- Restorative caries control
- Selective caries removal.
– Caries prevention: xylitol as a sugar substitute
– Sealants of pits and fissures: hidden fissures and early diagnosis of caries
– How to differentiate between infected and affected dentine
– Rotary caries removal: conventional tungsten carbide burs and their microhardness
– Rotary caries removal: polymer bur for carious dentin removal
– Mechanical caries removal: classification of each type of excavator
– Direct pulp capping in primary teeth
– Silver Diamine Fluoride 38%: Non-Restorative Cavity Control
– Molar Incisor Hypomineralization (MIH) and enamel hypoplasia
– Bioactive biomaterials
– SMART TECHNIQUE:
- Early Lesions
- Deep Caries
- Caries in teeth affected by MIH.

Duration: 1 h 56 min

By Rocio Lazo

Lesson program:
– Biomimetic in Minimally Invasive Dentistry: Bio-Remineralization
– Bioactive Glass Materials in Dentine: MTA, Biodentine and NeoMTA in indirect and direct pulp capping
– What does Biomimetic mean in pediatric dentistry?
– New Generation of Glass Ionomers with Strontium
– Giomers
– Minimally Invasive Dentistry in molars affected by MIH:
- Hypersensitivity Control
- Deproteinization of hypomineralized enamel
- Bioactive Biomaterials
- Adhesion
- Aesthetic Restorative Treatment.

Duration: 1 h 52 min

By Ghassem Ansari

Lesson program:
– Dental phobia: fear, anxiety, panic disorders, dentophobia
– Pediatric behavior types
– Dental anxiety and stress management
– Dental pain evaluation
– The domains of pediatric patient management: physical, pharmacological, aversive and linguistic domains
– Indications of local, general, and moderate anesthesia (sedation)
– Pain levels and nerve fibers responsible for pain
– Common analgesic prescribed to pediatric patients
– Classification of local anesthetics: Amide group
– Classification of local anesthetics: Ester group
– Local anesthetic characterization for pediatric patients: the onset, potency, and protein binding capabilities
– The ASA classification system and the INR reading
– Local anesthesia injection technique: features, composition, and dose calculation
– Oral block injections: IO, ASA, MSA, PSA, NP, GP, IA, and IN nerve block
– The additive and synergistic effect of anesthetics
– Inhalation, Enteral, and Parenteral Anesthesia
– Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and drug interaction
– Guidelines for sedation and general anesthesia
– Preparations for sedation
– Preparations for general anesthesia
– Side effects of using local and general anesthesia
– Complications during local and general anesthesia.

Duration: 2 h 17 min