
Endodontics is an ever-changing clinical landscape with innovations and updated techniques revolutionising our clinical approach to patient care.
Improved nickel titanium instruments are make the shaping of root canal systems easier and safer than ever while huge strides forward in obturation techniques have furthered our clinical success.
This webinar aims to introduce you to some such innovations and highlight key tools, tips, techniques for improved endodontic success.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the key concepts of root canal shaping
- Learn the principles and rational for minimally invasive endodontics
- Understand key factors and considerations for instrument selection
- Understand the role that bioceramic obturation materials play in modern endodontic treatment.
The speaker
Afzal qualified as a general dentist in 2006 and thoroughly enjoyed this side of the job for 10 years but always had a keen interest in endodontics.
Afzal embarked on a master’s degree in endodontics with the University of Chester which he completed in 2015 with merit.
Afzal’s love for endodontics continued to grow and took the plunge and enrolled onto a three-year full-time doctorate degree and specialist training in endodontics at the University of Liverpool from 2016-2019. Here he passed the MEndo speciality examination with the Royal College of Edinburgh and gained a doctor of dental science degree in endodontics from the University of Liverpool with his thesis being ‘Restoration of the root-filled tooth, a systematic review and survey to general dental practitioners’. He has presented his research at the European Society of Endodontology.
He is on the GDC specialist list for endodontics and is owns a private general and specialist endodontic referral practice in Manchester.
Afzal passion for endodontics is further kindled as he teaches and supervises postgraduate students at Manchester Dental Hospital on the MSc endodontic programme as well as mentoring and advising dentists with their day to day endodontic cases.
As Afzal was a general dental practitioner (GDP) working in NHS and private practice for 10 years. He is passionate about making endodontics more predictable for those in general practice.
You can sign up for the webinar here.
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