In collaboration with ADA NSW Centre for Professional Development, the Australian Society of Endodontology (NSW Branch) presents Dr Antonis Chaniotis. Enjoy two dynamic lectures alongside your ASE colleagues, plus, take the opportunity to join one of two half-day workshops led by this international powerhouse the following day.

Hands-on Workshops, 16 October 2025: Click here to register for the morning session and here to register for the afternoon session.

ASE Members receive pricing equal to ADA NSW Members for this lecture and workshop.

Lecture Outlines

Management of Curved, Splitting and Calcified Canals

Root canal curvatures, splitting canals, and calcifications introduce factors that increase the risk of procedural accidents during root canal treatment. The inability to achieve patency to the apical third, asymmetrical dentine removal leading to transportation, perforation, missed anatomy, and instrument fracture inside the curved trajectories are some of the procedural problems that might jeopardise the management of intra-radicular infection and result in poor treatment outcomes.

Curved, splitting and constricted canals introduce such complexity that total instrumentation concepts and specially designed instruments have been developed to deal with the challenge. This lecture seeks to provide and consolidate the principles necessary for understanding the dynamics of curved, splitting, and constricted canal management and to improve clinical skills.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the biological objectives of root canal treatment manipulation in curved, splitting, and calcified canals
• Understand how to choose instruments for curved, splitting, and calcified canals
• Understand how to choose and combine instrumentation techniques
• Practice new techniques and develop new skills
• Take away tips and hints to use in every day practice

Regenerative endodontic procedures for the clinical practice

Occasionally, the young pulp may become infected or necrotic due to caries or trauma. Traditionally, the treatment of these teeth had been approached through direct pulp capping, pulpotomy, apexogenesis, or apexification procedures according to the magnitude of pulpal damage.  The indications, objectives and type of pulpal therapy depend on whether the pulp is vital or nonvital based on the clinical diagnosis of normal pulp, reversibly inflamed pulp, irreversibly inflamed pulp, or necrotic pulp. The greater the pulp damage of the developing permanent dentition, the greater the challenge.   Recently, bioactive materials and regenerative concepts were introduced to increase the prognosis of compromised necrotic developing permanent teeth. The aim is the re-establishment of a functional vital tissue that will foster continued root development, dentinal wall thickening, and immune competency.

In this lecture single and multiple steps regenerative protocols will be discussed through the long-term observation of relevant cases.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the science behind the regenerative endodontic approaches
• Propose protocols for single step regenerative endodontic procedures
• Propose protocol for multiple steps regenerative protocols
• Investigate the possibilities of regenerative endodontic procedures for the retention of compromised teeth