It has been said: If you can take home one thing that you can use in your practice after you have completed a continuing education course, then the course was worthwhile. This course will be a bonanza. It is filled with Gems coming from fifty years of practicing dentistry.
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Dental Surgery
Dental surgery is not easy, but we tend to make things harder on ourselves than is necessary. When you are finding a particular extraction to be difficult, then you are doing something wrong. You are not following the path of extraction. Instead you are fighting against the way the tooth should come out. The shape and direction of the roots will determine the direction the extraction will take place.
1.If a root curves distally, then the path of extraction will be distally. You might force it buccal - lingually, but you will tear up buccal alveolar bone in the process.
2.A lower first molar mesial root may appear to be extending distally, but if it....