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Future of Endodontic Practice

FEP-1 - Laser Applications in Dentistry and Endodontics Workshop

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PT

Location: 403 B

Earn 6.0 CE Credits

Workshop Speaker(s)

Mohamed Fayad, D.D.S., M.S., PhD

Director of Endodontic Research, Clinical Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Giovanni Olivi, MD,DDS (he/him/his)

Adjunt Professor
Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy

Disclosure(s): FOTONA d.o.o.: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

Dental lasers are becoming more popular everyday. The technology has been improved and the photo-thermal effect of dental lasers is controlled by very short emitted pulses reducing the thermal damage to dental tissues.

Dental lasers can be used as complementary devices to complete many daily procedures in all the fields of dentistry due to their antibacterial, coagulating and biomodulating effects. Alternatively dental lasers can completely substitute conventional instruments in hard and soft tissues procedures. Effective hard and soft tissue procedures can be performed such as hard tissue ablation, soft tissue incision, lesion vaporization and coagulation. Such dental procedures are few examples of different laser tissue interaction and procedures.

A classification of the different available dental lasers with different wave lengths will be presented. Different disinfection procedure as the conventional laser in endodontics (CLE) with direct photo-thermal radiation on dentin walls, antimicrobial photoactivated disinfection (aPAD) using blu or green photosensitizers (activated by red light or 810 nm laser) and Erbium-YAG lasers activated irrigation (LAI) will be presented and compared to traditional disinfection devices.

Participants should plan to wear scrubs during this workshop.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the basic laser physics as well as different laser tissue interactions. That will include procedures from cavity preparation and root canal filler vaporization in re-treatment procedures.
Explain the mechanism of Laser Activated Irrigation in Endodontics.
Explain the different wave lengths application for a variety of soft tissue procedures as laser guided incisions and soft tissue management in invasive cervical resorptive defect.