Comprehensive canal cleaning remains a key criteria to endodontic success. Not surprisingly, almost all file manufacturers will promote their latest and greatest rotary files as the very best shaping instruments -that will radically increase the scope of canal systems that dentists can manage. Unfortunately, the reality is more often not as optimistic as the marketing would suggest. However, what is true is that improvements in material science have allowed all file manufacturers to come up with stronger and yet more flexible shaping files, to aid our cleaning and shaping protocols. This can only be advantageous for us as clinicians.

However, there are also other aspects of canal cleansing besides canal shaping with files. The concepts of canal patency, glidepath, irrigation and disinfection alongside efficient canal shaping remains the hallmarks of predictable endodontic canal cleaning.

This workshop aims to reinforce the well known principles of creating, maintaining canal patency and glidepath management. These essential pre-canal shaping skill sets will then present a strong platform to leverage on modern rotary NiTi file systems such as those from Kerr Endodontics , to produce predictable canal shaping to allow for efficient irrigation and canal cleaning in a singular instrumentation system.