Study club day

The ethos of this commitment to be able to execute science combined with art has been established for almost two decades.

The most recent study club day on endodontics, was held on the November 21 2014 at the Crowne Plaza in Marlow.

The day compromised of having three specialist endodontists discussing different aspects of current endodontics. There was also one lecture by the president elect on the use of posts for restoring endodontically treated teeth.

The first speaker was Ray Bellamy, who practises in Dublin and Bath. He commenced the day with the Ten Commandments of Endo as imparted by his mentor Herb Schilder. This was illustrated by Herb’s original slides and cases of what could go wrong if the commandments were not followed. The emphasis of this lecture was to instil values and morals into the endodontics. His main message explained that the onus is on us as clinicians to create success and understand that failures, when cases are planned thoroughly are due to shortcomings and limitations. He then laid the key principals of his teachings from his mentor. He showed that even where modern endodontics has evolved so far, these Ten Commandments are essential to follow.