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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENDODONTICS
The Department of Endodontics has the major responsibility for the discipline concerned with the morphology, physiology, and pathology of the human dental pulp and periradicular tissues. Its study and practice encompass the basic and clinical sciences including the biology of the normal pulp and etiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries of the pulp and associated periradicular conditions.
The scope of endodontics includes, but is not limited to, the differential diagnosis and treatment of oral pain of pulpal and/or periapical origin; vital pulp therapy such as pulp capping and pulpotomy; root canal therapy such as pulpectomy, nonsurgical treatment of root canal systems with or without periapical pathosis of pulpal origin, and the obturation of these root canal systems; selective surgical removal of pathological tissues resulting from pulpal pathosis; intentional replantation and replantation of avulsed teeth; surgical removal of tooth structure such as in root-end resection, hemisection, and root resection; endodontic implants; bleaching of discolored dentin and enamel (teeth); retreatment of teeth previously treated endodontically; and treatment procedures related to coronal restorations by means of post and/or cores involving the root canal space.
The department has the major responsibility for educational and research programs at the undergraduate,
postgraduate, and continuing education levels. An accredited program at the postdoctoral level
is available for qualified students wishing to become specialists in endodontics.
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