Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaInstrumentation.
Main language of instruction: English
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Cleaning and shaping of the root canal system is one of the most important stages in endodontics. This course will provide students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to carry out a proper cleaning and shaping in endodontics.
No previous requirements
- The student should know:
- Biological objectives of cleaning and configuration
- Mechanical objectives of instruments
- Objectives of the glide path file
- Advantages and disadvantages of the 2 lines of instrumentation (large apical calibres in comparison to
small apical calibres with high conicity)
- Advantages and disadvantages of stainless steel
- Advantages and disadvantages of nickel titanium
- Different parts of an instrument
- Definition of elasticity, flexibility, elastic limit, elastic deformation, shape memory and plastic limit.
- Know the mechanisms that can cause a fracture of an instrument.
- Causes of fracture from cyclic fatigue and torsion
- Know the types and causes of deformation instruments can bring about inside a canal (zip, elbow,
stripping, apical perforation, apical transportation, new canal, etc)
- Importance of instrument design:
- What is this factor and how does it influence the behaviour of the instrument inside the canal, fractures
from cyclic fatigue and torsion and apical transportation?
- Cutting angle
- Helix angle
- Radial supports
- Pitch
- Flute
- Core
- Manufacturing method
- Flexibility of instrument
- Advantages and disadvantages of reciprocating and continuous rotary files
Seminars
1. Principles of Instrumentation – Pathways of the Pulp 10th edition (pp. 283-296 and 321-325)
2. Endodontic Instruments – Castelluci, Chapter 13 (pp. 356-378)
3. Endodontic Instruments 2- Castelluci, Chapter 18 (pp. 518-522) and Pathways of the Pulp, 10th edition (pp. 305-312)
4. Nickel Titanium - Mastering Endodontic Instrumentation (pp. 10-16)
5. Components of an instrument - Mastering Endodontic Instrumentation (pp. 16-36)
6. Fracture of Instruments - Mastering Endodontic Instrumentation (pp. 39-57)
7. Fatigue and Flexibility - Mastering Endodontic Instrumentation (pp. 58-74)
8. Curvature of the canal - Mastering Endodontic Instrumentation (pp. 97-104)
9. Apical Transportation - Development and sequelae of canal transportation
10. Reciprocating Motion - Yared G et al. IEJ 2008, Bürklein S et al. IEJ 2012, You et al. JOE 2012
11. Reciprocating Motion 2-De-Deus et al. IEJ 2010, Kim et al. JOE 2012, Patiño et al. JOE 2010.
12. Reciprocating Motion 3- Franco et al. JOE 2011, Gambarini et al. IEJ 2012
13. Principles of Instrumentation - Peters JOE 2004, Schilder H 1974
14. Apical Transportation - Duran-Sindreu et al. JOE 2012, García et al. JOE 2012, Gergi R et al. JOE 2010, Javaheri JOE 2007
15. Apical Transportation 2- Iqbal et al. JOE 2010, Baugh et al. JOE 2005
16. Glide Path- Berutti et al. JOE 2009, Alves Vde O et al. JOE 2012
17. Glide Path 2- Patiño et al. JOE 2005, Berutti et al. JOE 2012
18. Ledges - Jafarzadeh et al. JOE 2007, Lambrianidis. Endodontic Topics 2009
19. Fracture of Instruments - Pruett et al. JOE 1997, Wolcott et al. JOE 2006
20. Fracture of Instruments 2- Martín B et al IEJ 2003, Wu et al. JOE 2011, Al-Omari MA et al. OOOE 2010
21. Path File - Siqueira E Topics 2005, Sanchez JA et al. IEJ 2010
The course objectives will be achieved through training seminars. In some sessions students will prepare a summary or presentations based on the articles proposed by the teacher responsible for each seminar.
Written exam consisting of 30 short questions. 70% is required to pass the exam.
The course will be based on the most relevant articles from the journals of high impact index in Endodontics.