Brandon Seto, D.D.S., M.S.D.

 

Private Practice

Santa Monica, California, USA

 

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry

 

4:30 p.m.

Friday, June 26, 2021

International Academy of Endodontics, Annual Meeting

The Scottsdale Princess Resort

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

 

 

Although survival of teeth is the goal of endodontics, often the primary focus of treatment is conformity with the endodontic triad: clean, shape, obturate. My experience over the last 9 years in private practice has led me to rethink these clinical objectives. Seeing recalls of patients treated in my family’s endodontic practice over the past 40 years has been a confusing, yet enlightening experience. Survival of teeth labeled with a guarded prognosis, failure in perfectly treated teeth, and long term retention of teeth with severe treatment deficiencies and radiolucent periapical findings have caused me to challenge existing paradigms. This presentation will review selected cases from a 40-year-old endodontic practice, explore them in-depth, and arrive at conclusions by which parameters for accurate outcome prognostication can be based.

  

1) Tooth survival as it relates to patient-centered, disease-centered, and process-centered outcome parameters.
2) Retention of teeth with “guarded” or “poor” prognosis.
3) Failure of technically superior endodontic treatment.

 

 

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry. Part-time clinical graduate/undergraduate clinical faculty

 

Dr. Brandon Seto is in full-time private practice in Santa Monica, CA and teaches weekly at the UCLA School of Dentistry student clinics. He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 and his certificate in endodontics and Master of Science in Dentistry degree from the University of Washington in 2011. He joined his father, Dr. Bradley Seto, in a group endodontic practice that has been serving patients for over 40 years.

 

 

 

 

Parish P. Sedghizadeh, D.D.S., M.S.

 

Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California, USA

 

  

2:00 p.m.

Friday, June 25, 2021

International Academy of Endodontics, Annual Meeting

The Scottsdale Princess Resort

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

 

 

This talk will discuss hard tissue conditions relevant to the practice of Endodontics with an emphasis on applications of CBCT imaging including pathology diagnosis.

 

Associate Professor, University of Southern California

 

 

Dr. Parish P. Sedghizadeh is an Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Southern California (USC), Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, and Director of the USC Center for Biofilms research laboratory. Dr. Sedghizadeh serves as the Section Chair of Diagnostic Sciences at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry and is the Director of the hybrid Oral Pathology and Radiology Program. He completed his undergraduate training and Bachelor of Science degree at UCLA, his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at USC, and specialty training in oral and maxillofacial pathology and a Master of Science degree in oral biology at The Ohio State University. As a clinician-scientist, Dr. Sedghizadeh conducts research, publishes, consults, and teaches oral pathology, radiology, surgery, pain, and medicine with an active intramural clinical practice. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications, and his research laboratory and clinical research projects at USC focus on the characterization and treatment of microbial biofilm infections, particularly osteomyelitis and osteonecrosis of the jaw where he has developed and tested novel bisphosphonate-antibiotic conjugates to target bone biofilm infections.

 

 

 

 

Harold Crossley, M.S., D.D.S., Ph. D.

 

Professor Emeritus
University of Maryland Dental School

  

12:00 p.m.

Friday, June 25, 2021

International Academy of Endodontics, Annual Meeting

The Scottsdale Princess Resort

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

 

 

This presentation will include the current status of these three street drugs, their abuse, and their impact on the dental practice.

  

1) Opioid, alcohol, and marijuana abuse, addiction, and the impact on the dental practice
2) Alcohol abuse, addiction
 

 

Honorary member of the Hinman Dental Society
Professor Emeritus University of Maryland Dental School
Fellow of the International College of Dentist and American College of Dentists

 

Harold L. Crossley, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland Dental School.  A native of Rhode Island, Dr. Crossley received a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island in 1964.  He later was awarded the Master of Science (1970) and Doctorate degrees (1972) in Pharmacology. The University of Maryland Dental School in Baltimore awarded Dr. Crossley the D.D.S. degree in 1980.

 

 

 

Gilbert H. Welch, MD, MPH

 

General internist and Professor of Medicine

Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Geisel School of Medicine

 

Professor of Public Policy, Dartmouth College

Professor of Business Administration, Amos Tuck School

 

8:30 a.m.

Friday, June 25, 2021

International Academy of Endodontics, Annual Meeting

The Scottsdale Princess

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

 

 

Rising cancer incidence may not reflect changes in the true occurrence of cancer but instead changes in diagnostic practice. And changes in diagnostic practice can exert a powerful influence on cancer survival statistics. Drawing on trends in a variety of cancers, Welch will explore the differences between an epidemic of a disease versus an epidemic of a diagnosis — and why those differences can make for misleading stories reported to the public.

 

 

 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

 

 

Dr. Welch is a general internist who has worked for the US Indian Health Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Dartmouth. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. For over three decades, he has been asking hard questions about his profession. His arguments are frequently counter-intuitive, even heretical, yet have regularly appeared in the country's most prestigious medical journals — Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute — as well as in op-eds in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. His most recent book is LESS MEDICINE, MORE HEALTH – 7 Assumptions that Drive Too Much Medical Care.

Dr. Welch questions the assumption that more medical care is always better. His research has focused on the assumption as it relates to diagnosis: that the best strategy to keep people healthy is early diagnosis – and the earlier the better. He has delineated the side effects of this strategy: physicians test too often, treat too aggressively and tell too many people that they are sick. Much of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening: in particular, screening for melanoma, thyroid, lung, breast and prostate cancer.