Errors tend to accumulate during procedure, and early errors cause the most devastating outcomes. Proper execution of minimally invasive access cavities is essential to a successful outcome. Until recently, we’ve had to balance conservation of tooth structure during RCT with irrigating efficacy. Due to the primitive irrigation tools of the day, we cut big access and canal preparations out of necessity. Fortunately, Endodontics have twigged to the increasing importance of dentin preservation during RCT procedures, and the inexorable trend toward cutting less tooth structure has been going on for several years, limited only by the tools and techniques we have at our disposal. The question has become, “How do we perform minimally- invasive endodontic procedures without losing our minds?”

As most of us on this path have found, MIE treatment restrictions can frustrate procedural execution enough to produce more frequent short-term RCT failures, an irony when our aspiration was to create longer-term results. It is very clear we need new concepts, tools, and techniques designed specifically for MIE. Conceptually, we need to better understand where the law of diminishing returns tells us that further dentin conservation is misdirected, needlessly complex, and could actually lower success rates of RCT. Tool and technique-wise, it’s been a difficult reboot for Endodontists to cut, clean, and conefit MIE preparations.
Learning Objectives:

• Designing MIE access cavities
• Executing MIE access cavities
• MIE instrumentation for irrigation and obturation
• MIE cleaning tools and strategies
• o Laser-assisted irrigation
• o Closed-system negative-pressure positive outflow irrigation
• MIE obturation techniques
• MIE restoration

There will be organized a get-together party in the R14 restaurant (requires additional registration).
The exact address of the venue for the party is:
R14 Tallinn
Rotermanni 14, 10111 Tallinn, Estonia