Practical lessons in endodontic treatment / Donald E. Arens ... [et al.] ; with contributions by David C. Brown ... [et al.].

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Medical evaluation and antibiotic precautions -- Clinical examination and assessment of an endodontic patient -- Radiographic examination and interpretation -- Diagnosis -- Treatment documentation and record keeping -- Managing the apprehensive patient -- Endodontic treatment planning : tooth-related considerations -- Endodontic vs. implant therapy for a single tooth -- Infection and success rates -- Presenting a treatment plan to a patient -- Endodontic instruments and equipment -- Clinical infection control -- Value of magnification -- Local anesthesia -- Guidelines for rubber dam use -- Contents: Access preparation and orifice identification -- Instrument and material choices -- Root canal irrigation -- Strategies to reach the root apex -- Shaping and cleaning the anatomically uncomplicated canal -- Shaping and cleaning the anatomically complicated canal -- Locating and opening the mineralized canal -- Managing the obstructed canal -- Mishaps during root canal shaping -- Mishaps in shaping the apical third -- Pain after cleaning and shaping -- Single-visit vs. multiple-visit therapy -- Interappointment temporization -- Final steps before obturation -- Guidelines for sealers and solid core materials -- Materials and methods of obturation -- Posttreatment pain after obturation -- Responding to posttreatment disease -- Challenges and mishaps in obturation -- Endodontic emergencies and their treatment -- Vital pulp capping -- Apexogenesis and pulpotomy -- Apexification -- Pulpal treatment in primary teeth -- Treating the avulsed tooth -- Bleaching techniques for nonvital and vital teeth -- Restoration of endodontically treated teeth.