An Example of Imperfection.

Retreatment, Surgery September 9th, 2008

Everyone likes to show off their best work, but when can you remember being at a continuing education presentation and the presenter shows off work that they have produced that is less than ideal?

Here is a case that was fraught with issues from the beginning:

The patient will be on a recall schedule with me for the next year or two while I keep tabs on healing within the jaw bone. Hopefully the problem of chronic infection from this tooth is solved. Options are very limited now if the infection persists.


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  • http://fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    I have nothing useful to say… so I’m just going to say, ‘oh look, more teeth’

    Hi Peri! When’s your downtime? So I know when I can expect more good reading from you?

    (fragileheart’s last blog post: Monday Madness: The Boob Tube Edition)

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    I am never down. Always up — thanks to the products that I keep getting spammed about on here.

  • http://fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    LOL I don’t think I want to know….

  • http://WaxUpWaxOff Sheila S.

    How cool! I didn’t know you taught CE courses. I have been recently toying around with that idea as a long-term goal. I don’t know too much about CE courses – for example how long would I have to be practicing to have a enough credibility or confidence to have a successful course? What is the process for putting one together?

    It seems like it is a lot of fun – I hope you did/will have fun with it!

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    The vast majority of CE is sponsored, either by a dental school, or companies in the dental industry. The sponsor helps to organize the event (catering, CE point certification, venue, advertising) while you provide the lecture.

    Generally to become an “authority” in whatever field you’re going to be talking about you’ll need to be on faculty if the dental school is sponsoring, or if the talk is company-sponsored, you need to have worked extensively or been certified (eg. CEREC) with their product(s).

    Being a specialist kinda automatically credentials you for talking in your field because of the extra education.

    I don’t do it much anymore because of my lack of free time to put material together. Every now and then, however, I get calls to talk that I decide to accept.

  • http://www.looking-down.blogspot.com/ LD

    One of the best CE courses I ever went to was given by a periodontist (who incidentally used to tutor me as an under-grad, and who used to show up at least altittle bit drunk. Heh.). His opening line was pretty much “I can show you cases of work I’ve done which turned out pretty well. But that’s not really interesting. So I’m going to talk to you today about one of my screw-ups”.

    He then proceeded to show an implant case of his that went horribly pear-shaped. It was fascinating.

    Recently from LD: )

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    Hi LD, long time no hear! Hope things are going well with you.

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