Delphine Maret DDS, PhD, Ove A. Peters DDS, PhD, Julien Delrieu DDS, Sylvain Gaillac DDS, Philippe Ducreux, Charles-Henri Houze-Cerfon MD, PhD, Thomas Geeraerts MD, PhD, Franck Diemer DDS, PhD
{"title":"The dental microscope in endodontic education: A feasibility study of a distance learning course","authors":"Delphine Maret DDS, PhD, Ove A. Peters DDS, PhD, Julien Delrieu DDS, Sylvain Gaillac DDS, Philippe Ducreux, Charles-Henri Houze-Cerfon MD, PhD, Thomas Geeraerts MD, PhD, Franck Diemer DDS, PhD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12826","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12826","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of preclinical training, specifically in root canal preparation, using a virtual educational system equipped with an operating microscope. Ten postgraduate general dentistry trainees and practitioners undergoing postgraduate training in endodontics participated. The telesimulation course included three steps: theory, demonstration of practical work by the teacher and lastly practical training by the participants. The digital environment including the dental microscope was presented, and the feedback was collected with a questionnaire. The majority of participants considered that the online video conference format allowed them to acquire theoretical content but also practical knowledge and skills, owing to the contribution of the operating microscope. The technical feasibility of endodontic telesimulation was demonstrated. The operating microscope has a potential role in distance education, enabling teaching to occur synchronously and collaboratively. This allows learners to interact with each other and demonstrators in real time.</p>","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139089523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Henrique Carvalhal Gasparelli DDS, MSc, Marília Fagury Videira Marceliano-Alves DDS, MSc, PhD, Luan Ferreira Bastos MSc, PhD, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes MSc, PhD, Ana Grasiela da Silva Limoeiro DDS, MSc, PhD, Wayne Martins Nascimento DDS, MSc, Luiz Meton Horta dos Santos DDS, MSc, Tchilalo Boukpessi DDS, MSc, PhD, Adriana de Jesus Soares DDS, MSc, PhD, Marcos Frozoni DDS, MSc, PhD
{"title":"Analysis of the penetration of NaOCl 5.25% into dentinal tubules using different irrigation protocols: An ex vivo study","authors":"Carlos Henrique Carvalhal Gasparelli DDS, MSc, Marília Fagury Videira Marceliano-Alves DDS, MSc, PhD, Luan Ferreira Bastos MSc, PhD, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes MSc, PhD, Ana Grasiela da Silva Limoeiro DDS, MSc, PhD, Wayne Martins Nascimento DDS, MSc, Luiz Meton Horta dos Santos DDS, MSc, Tchilalo Boukpessi DDS, MSc, PhD, Adriana de Jesus Soares DDS, MSc, PhD, Marcos Frozoni DDS, MSc, PhD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12824","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12824","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The objective of the study was to investigate the 5.25% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) penetration into the dentinal tubules after different irrigation methods. Seventy canines were stained with 1% crystal violet and divided into groups (<i>n</i> = 20): GEC—EasyClean; GPUI—E1 Irrisonic ultrasonic insert; GXP—XP-Endo finisher; GPC—conventional irrigation and GNC—stained tooth without irrigation. Axial sections (16×) were assessed and irrigant penetration was quantified as a bleaching halo on the surface of the apical, middle and coronal third. In the apical third, GPUI promoted greater NaOCl penetration (<i>p</i> < 0.05). GXP was better than GEC (<i>p</i> < 0.05), as was GPC (<i>p</i> > 0.05). The GPUI and GXP groups were similar in the middle and coronal third (<i>p</i> > 0.05). GPUI and GXP showed better results than GEC (<i>p</i> < 0.05). GPUI was more effective in the apical third and like GXP in the cervical and middle third.</p>","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aej.12824","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139049767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emílio Henrique Rocha Gonçalves Ferreira DDS, MSc, César Augusto Perini Rosas DDS, MSc, Ana Grasiela da Silva Limoeiro DDS, MSc, PhD, Samuel Nogueira Lima DDS, MSc, Rafael Amado Silva DDS, MSc, Iris Nogueira Bincelli Seckler DDS, MSc, Alexandre Sigrist De Martin DDS, MSc, PhD, Wayne Martins Nascimento DDS, MSc, Carlos Eduardo da Silveira Bueno DDS, MSc, PhD
{"title":"Effect of obturation technique on dentinal tubule penetration of two tricalcium silicate–based sealers: Ex vivo study","authors":"Emílio Henrique Rocha Gonçalves Ferreira DDS, MSc, César Augusto Perini Rosas DDS, MSc, Ana Grasiela da Silva Limoeiro DDS, MSc, PhD, Samuel Nogueira Lima DDS, MSc, Rafael Amado Silva DDS, MSc, Iris Nogueira Bincelli Seckler DDS, MSc, Alexandre Sigrist De Martin DDS, MSc, PhD, Wayne Martins Nascimento DDS, MSc, Carlos Eduardo da Silveira Bueno DDS, MSc, PhD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12825","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12825","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this study was to assess by confocal laser microscope the depth of dentinal tubule penetration of two tricalcium silicate-based sealers promoted by two obturation techniques in curved canals compared with AHPlus. One hundred and twenty canals were divided into six groups (<i>n</i> = 20): BCSC-Bio-C Sealer (BC) and single-cone technique (SC); BCCW-BC and continuous condensation wave (CW); TFSC-Total Fill (TF) and SC; TFCW-TF and CW; AHSC-AH Plus (AH) and SC; AHCW-AH and CW. Data were analysed using the three-way ANOVA and Tukey's test (<i>α</i> = 5%). Penetration depth was significantly greater for TFCW than TFSC and greater for AHCW than AHSC (<i>p</i> < 0.05). There was no significant difference between BCCW and BCSC (<i>p</i> > 0.05). The penetration of TF was significantly greater (<i>p</i> < 0.05). The CW technique promoted greater intratubular penetration, except for the BC sealer.</p>","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139038181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes for the journal and the path forward","authors":"Stephen Harlamb, Unni Krishnan, Ove Peters","doi":"10.1111/aej.12816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aej.12816","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138578192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correspondence on ‘Is the field of endodontics prepared to utilise ChatGPT?’","authors":"Hinpetch Daungsupawong PhD, Viroj Wiwanitkit MD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12823","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of the separated endodontic instrument on periapical radiographs using a deep learning-based convolutional neural network algorithm","authors":"Yağız Özbay DDS, Buse Yaren Kazangirler MSc, Caner Özcan PhD, Adem Pekince DDS, PhD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12822","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12822","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study evaluated the diagnostic performance of an artificial intelligence system to detect separated endodontic instruments on periapical radiograph radiographs. Three hundred seven periapical radiographs were collected and divided into 222 for training and 85 for testing to be fed to the Mask R-CNN model. Periapical radiographs were assigned to the training and test set and labelled on the DentiAssist labeling platform. Labelled polygonal objects had their bounding boxes automatically generated by the DentiAssist system. Fractured instruments were classified and segmented. As a result of the proposed method, the mean average precision (mAP) metric was 98.809%, the precision value was 95.238, while the recall reached 98.765 and the f1 score 96.969%. The threshold value of 80% was chosen for the bounding boxes working with the Intersection over Union (IoU) technique. The Mask R-CNN distinguished separated endodontic instruments on periapical radiographs.</p>","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138561886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of ultrasonics and trephine burs on dentinal microcrack formation during broken instrument removal procedures: A micro-CT analysis","authors":"Kadriye Özdayi DDS, Sehnaz Yilmaz DDS, PhD, Aysin Dumani DDS, PhD, Oguz Yoldas DDS, PhD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12820","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12820","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The objective of this study was to compare the effects of ultrasonic and trephine burs on microcrack formation during the removal of broken instruments, utilising micro-computed tomography (Micro-CT). Twenty-five extracted human mandibular molars were used for this study. The hand files were fractured into the mesiobuccal canal, except in the control group. In the ultrasonic group (<i>n</i> = 10), ultrasonic tips were used to retrieve the instrument, while in the trephine group (<i>n</i> = 10), trephine burs (Meitrac, Meisinger) and an extractor device were utilised. For the control group (<i>n</i> = 5), only staging platform was prepared. After the removal procedures, micro-CT images were obtained from the specimens. The chi-squared test was used to analyse the data, and significance was considered to be <i>p</i> < 0.05. Overall, 15 736 cross sections were analysed. No significant differences were found between control and experimental groups. Removal of broken instruments with trephine burs caused significantly more dentinal microcracks compared with ultrasonics (<i>p</i> = 0.016).</p>","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138300717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite element study of the fatigue behaviour of nickel-titanium endodontic files utilised with pecking motion technique","authors":"Eyüp Can Kökan PhD Candidate, Yasin Atik MSc, Şebnem Özüpek PhD, Evgeny Podnos PhD, Raif Erişen PhD","doi":"10.1111/aej.12813","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12813","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of the study is to evaluate the influence of the pecking motion (reciprocal axial motion) surgical technique on the durability behaviour of the Nickel-Titanium endodontic files using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). A commonly used endodontic file, ProTaper Universal F2, is selected for the study. Root canal treatment procedure is simulated on a test-bench (simulated root canal) proposed by G. Gambarini for cyclic fatigue loading of endodontic files with and without the pecking motion via FEA. The hysteresis energy density is used as evaluation criteria for low cycle fatigue life estimation of Shape Memory Alloy files. In an additional study, the root canal treatment procedure is also simulated for an FEA model of a molar tooth with significant root canal curvature to understand the influence of the realistic curvature of a root canal on the fatigue behaviour of endodontic files. For the simulated root canal, analysis accurately predicts the endodontic file's failure location, and fatigue life estimation based on the hysteresis energy density is shown to increase significantly with the introduction of the pecking motion, an observation confirmed by reported experimental results. Molar tooth simulations reveal greater file fatigue resistance than in simulated root canals, confirming the pecking motion's efficacy in enhancing file durability, even in real root canal conditions. Simulations indicate that the pecking motion technique increases the fatigue life of endodontic files for simulated as well as real root canals and the hysteresis energy is confirmed as an acceptable parameter to quantify fatigue life of Nickel-Titanium endodontic files.</p>","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138296648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASE NSW 244th General Meeting and Third Lecture of 2023","authors":"Atieh Sadr DDS, MS","doi":"10.1111/aej.12811","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aej.12811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55581,"journal":{"name":"Australian Endodontic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138296647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}