Preliminary Schedule

Preliminary Schedule

Thursday

9.30 — Welcome

09.30 – 10.30

• Presentation of the course: overview of Laser applications in Paediatric Dentistry, Restorative Dentistry, and Endodontics
• Laser physics and everyday practice: Laser-Tissue interaction with dental tissues: enamel, dentin, caries, gingiva, and mucosa.
• Wavelength and target chromophores (water, hydroxyapatite, hemoglobin)

10.30 – 11.00 — Break

11.00 – 12.00

• Medium Infrared lasers effects on dental tissues (enamel, dentin, pulp)
• Near-Infrared laser’s effects on dental tissues (enamel, dentin, pulp)
• Role of water spray
• energy, pulse duration, and pulse frequency effects on oral tissues
• Laser in Paediatric Dentistry:
• Pain and fear: threshold of pain and threshold of suffering
• Introduction laser to children: laser approach and psychological approach
• Laser Analgesia
• High and low energy, short and long pulse, pulse repetition rate, and pain stimulation

12.00 – 13.00 — Lunch

13.00 – 14.30

• Laser for caries prevention
• Laser fluorescence diagnosis
• Laser-assisted sealant
• Laser for M.I.H. (molars-incisors-pomineralization)

14.30 – 16.00

• Laser for caries removal in primary teeth
• Laser for deep caries treatment: pulp capping-pulpotomy
• Laser for pulpectomy in primary teeth

16.00 – 17.00 — Discussion
17.00 – 17.30 — Free time
17.30 – 20.00 — Free time
20.00 — DINNER together

Friday

09.00 – 11.00

• Laser labial frenectomy
• Laser lingual frenotomy
• Short lingual frenum and postural alterations in children and youth

11.00 – 11.30 — Break

11.30 – 13.00

• Carious removal of permanent teeth (all Black’s classes)
• Margin smoothening, laser conditioning, acid etching
• Deep dentin decay: is the stepwise technique today still actual?

13.00 – 14.30 — Lunch

14.30 – 15.30

• Laser and pulp exposure: decontamination, coagulation, capping

15.30 – 16.30

• CLINICAL CASE: Restorative Dentistry

16.30 – 17.00 — Discussion
17.00 – 18.00 — Multiple choice test – part 1

Saturday

09.00 – 10.00

• Test part 1 - evaluation and discussion

10.00 – 11.00

• Introduction to root canal anatomy
• Introduction to the root canal preparation and irrigation
• Preparing the personal model* for the hands-on

11.00 – 11.30 — Break

11.30 – 13.00

• Conventional Laser Endodontics: all the wavelength
• Photo Activated Disinfection: visible and near-infrared lasers
• Laser Activated Irrigation and SWEEPS

13.00 – 14.30 — Lunch

14.30 – 15.30

• SWEEPS protocol

15.30 – 16.30

• Hands-on*

16.30 – 17.00 — Break

17.00 – 18.00

• Multiple choice test – part 2

18.00 – 20.00 — Free time
20.00 — DINNER together

Sunday

09.00 – 10.00

• Test part 2 - evaluation and discussion

10.00 – 10.30 — Break

10.30 – 12.30

• CLINICAL CASE: Root canal therapy

12.30 – 13.00

• Discussion on module II content

* Each participant should bring one extracted tooth with the access cavity prepared and canal/s instrumented only up to ISO .10 file at the apex