S-6 - Embracing the Microsurgical Renaissance in an Implant Driven Era

Periradicular microsurgery has been a crucial asset for those practitioners that embraced it. In the early 2000s as the implant era was thriving, prosthodontists and periodontists favored dental implants over retreatment to replace non-healed endodontically treated teeth due to the unpredictable outcome of retreatment and traditional apical surgery. Since then there has been a steady shift in philosophy thanks to the “Renaissance Era of Microsurgical Endodontics”. This shift is taking place and it’s up to us as endodontists to seize this opportunity to make our specialty shine and keep us part of the overall patient treatment plans. Although dental implants remain a great option for replacement of the “missing” dentition, they should not always be the first option to replace the “existing” dentition. This lecture will go over outcomes of root canal retreatments, implants and microsurgery. We will also focus on how to maximize the predicability of current microsurgical endodontic protocols in your office.