Endodontics II Clinical Spring

The Department of Endodontics trains pre-doctoral students to become competent in basic endodontic procedures on vital and non-vital teeth. This course includes clinical instruction in diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment/obturation, post-endodontic restoration and related entities (bleaching of non-vital teeth, treatment of traumatic injuries, etc.). This instruction begins at the pre-clinical in the second year endodontic lecture series (670) and is expanded and reinforced in pre-doctoral laboratory course (672). Students present to the Endodontic Clinic to render care either on their own patients or on patients referred for endodontic emergencies. Case assignment will be handled by clinical faculty and the endodontic business office based on the AAE case difficulty guidelines. In a student's Endodontic Emergency rotation, they are instructed in the proper diagnosis and assessment of emergency cases, appropriate treatment (both emergency and scheduled appointment visits), pertinent paperwork and follow up of emergency patients. The pre-doctoral student, at the discretion of the faculty member on duty, may elect to retain the emergency patient for further treatment or, if the case is deemed too difficult or the student elects not to treat that particular patient, the appropriate referral to another pre-doctoral or a post- doctoral student is made. Regularly scheduled patients are treated in the Endodontic Clinic. Appointments are made by the treating students through the Endodontic Business Office. Supervision ranges from chair-side direct supervision for those students identified as having limited endodontic experience, to that of indirect supervision for those having completed more cases involving anterior and posterior teeth. Attending instructors consist of full- and part-time faculty members and second-year postgraduate endodontic residents assigned to teach in the Endodontic Clinic on a rotational basis. The overall supervision of the clinic on a specific day is the responsibility of the appointed "day chief" (a faculty member). Management and administration of the clinic and all related decisions are the shared responsibility of the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral directors. During Endodontic Clinic rotations, pre-doctoral students do not treat emergency dental trauma cases. Post-doctoral students will treat these patients through the Emergency Clinic and endodontic emergency. 0.25-2.25 Credit Hours