3rd ESP Quarterly Scientific Webinar 2022

3rd ESP Quarterly Scientific Webinar 2022
4:00 PM (GMT+8 / Philippine Standard Time)
via Zoom
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Speakers and Lectures

Iluminada Viloria, DMD, PhD, FADI, FICD

Iluminada Viloria, DMD, PhD, FADI, FICD

Dr. Iluminada Viloria is a graduate of Centro Escolar University in 1990. She took an externship program in Endodontics at John F. Cotton Hospital from 1991 to 1992 and started to work and teach after the training. She was a recipient of the Mombusho scholarship grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education and pursued her Doctor of Philosophy in Dental Science at Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science from 1995 to 2000. She joined the teaching staff of the University of the East from 2000 to present. She is the head of the Master of Science in Endodontics at the University of the East. She was awarded as the Model teacher of the University of the East in 2015 and was a semi-finalist in the Ten Most Outstanding Filipino given by the Metrobank Foundation.

Dr. Viloria held various positions in the Endodontic Society of the Philippines (ESP) and became the President from 2010-2012. She was also the editor-in-chief of the ESP Journal. She is a Fellow and Board of Director of the International College of Dentists (ICD) and the secretary of the Academy of Dentistry International (ADI) for 2021 to 2023.

She is one of the key opinion leaders of Dentsply-Sirona in the Philippines and member of the Speaker’s Bureau of the Philippine Dental Association (PDA). She has lectured and published scientific articles locally and internationally.

Tips and Tricks in Endodontics

Although root canal treatment has a 95% success rate, dentists find it hard to do most specially on teeth that are difficult to manage in terms of anatomy and with confusing diagnosis.

Arriving at the correct diagnosis plays an important role for the development of the best treatment plan and proper treatment decision. It is of high importance that the offending tooth be given the correct diagnosis and relieved the patient from the odontogenic pain. Other types of pain discomfort would mimic dental pain, thus a thorough understanding of the patient’s response to the different diagnostic tests should be analyzed.

Another cause of endodontic failure is the missed canal, thus resulting to persistence of periapical infection. Curved canals posed another problem too during biomechanical preparation.

The aim of this lecture is to give some pointers on how to arrive at the correct diagnosis, by presenting cases on how the teeth were properly diagnosed. Tips in locating and managing extra canals will also be discussed together with some tricks in treating curved canals.