Manfred Friedman

Successful Endodontic Treatment is in large part due to strategic restorative choices. This multi-modality course is designed to assist the practitioner to make sound restorative decisions and use modern techniques to achieve success. 

To give more treatment options when faced with some unusual problems. Post systems and the proper technique for etching, bonding and cementing fiber posts will be presented during the hands-on portion which enhances retention, decreases root fracture, and allows for retrievability if needed.

• The evolution of the use of posts in dentistry
• The modern-day decision tree - when should posts be used
• The evolution of fiber post technology and systems
• Fiber posts - they are not all the same!
• The selection of the appropriate post
• The secret to clinical success - the necessary adjunctive aids to treat the canal properly and a simple step-by-step technique to minimize air bubbles and achieve maximum bond strength of the post and core.
• Do you need to use a post cement and then a core material or can you do it all at once?

• Preparing a model tooth, etching, bonding and cementing a conservative fiber post, and building up the core.

To introduce the Bioclear Method and how its modernized cavity preparations capitalize on the mechanical properties of composite resins to make stronger, predictable, longer-lasting restorations particularly for endodontically-treated teeth. You will be introduced to modernized cavity preparations, anatomic tooth forms (Bioclear matrices) and injection-molding of heated composite to make stronger, predictable, longer lasting restorations as per the Bioclear Method.

• Traditional options to restoring endodontically-treated teeth
• To crown or not to crown
• Modified tooth preparations for composite restorations
• The Bioclear Method
• What about posts?
• Clinical examples

• Application of the Bioclear Method to a traditional G.V. Black MOD cavity preparation on an upper maxillary bicuspid.