RDS 422
4th year Clinical Endodontics
Course Description:
This course is given to the 4th year level students who have successfully completed course 322 RDS in theory and practical part. It continues with the endodontic instruction learned in 322 and elaborates on the theoretical part, while giving students clinical experience and exposure to actual patient treatment. The emphasis of the course is the integration between the clinical and biological principles. The students will be trained to treat endodontically involved teeth – anterior and posterior. In addition, they will be trained to manage endodontic emergencies, traumatic injuries, and follow up endo lesions.
The Course Components:
The course is composed of lecture and clinical components, in which the students must learn to recognize, diagnose and treat pulpally and periapically involved teeth. Students will also learn to relate endodontics to various dental disciplines.
Concepts & Skills:
At the completion of 422 RDS, students should be able to:
1. Diagnose endodontic pain by organizing clinical findings, symptoms and pain history in a systematic manner.
2. Utilize endodontic tests to determine pulp vitality.
3. Establish a differential diagnosis of odontogenic and non-odontogenic pain.
4. Establish a differential diagnosis between endodontic and periodontal disease.
5. Recognize major pulpal and periapical pathology and their sign and symptoms.
6. Record status of the pulpal and periapical tissue through clinical and radiographic examinations both in clinical forms, files, and endodontic summaries.
7. Plan and deliver routine non-surgical endodontic treatment to patients with pulpal and periapical disease.
8. Select cases for treatment based on knowledge, experience and ability.
9. Recognize need for and refer cases beyond level of the course.
10. Determine the prognosis of the treated tooth.
11. Recognize the need for endodontic surgery in appropriate cases.
12. Identify the need for adjunctive procedures subsequent to endodontic therapy.
13. Plan and refer case for appropriate restoration.
14. Recall treated patients, and be aware of the value of post-operative follow-up (recall), and continuing prognosis.
15. Diagnose, evaluate and perform retreatment on suitable cases.
16. Be exposed to trauma cases, emergency cases, endo-perio cases, bleaching and preventive therapy cases.
17. Exposure to new endodontic technologies; such as apex locators, rotary instrumentation, innovations in irrigation, and contemporary obturation techniques.