Shimon Friedman, DMD (Prof. Emeritus)

Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
International Academy of Endodontics Annual Meeting
Long Essay Program
Friday, March 3, 2023
 
 
Contemporary Endodontic Treatment Outcomes Explained
 

The rapid increase in outcome studies, use of various outcome terminologies, and inconsistent results, have all combined to obscure the actual outcomes of contemporary endodontic treatment modalities. This is confusing to clinicians, and it may act to skew treatment decisions.

To navigate the existing ambiguity, it is necessary to consider the main purposes and stakeholders of treatment outcomes, and the explicit outcome goals that may be set by informed individual patients. This perspective forms the basis for structured methodological appraisal of all published studies, to select those that comprise the CURRENT BEST EVIDENCE for each treatment modality. The longer-term, pertinent outcomes reported in the current best evidence studies are then summarized and effectively communicated to inform treatment decisions.

Following the above strategy, this lecture will highlight the outcomes of endodontic treatment in regard to periapical health, symptom-free function, and survival/retention, based on the current best evidence. Outcome predictors supported by the current best evidence may also be listed.

 
Major topics to be addressed:
 
Periapical health, symptom-free function and survival/retention after Initial Treatment, Orthograde Retreatment, and Apical Microsurgery.
 
 
Learning Objectives:
  1. List the outcome studies that comprise the Current Best Evidence for nonsurgical and surgical endodontic treatment
  2. Based on the Current Best Evidence, summarize the chances of treated teeth to be healthy, symptom-free, and retained long-term after nonsurgical and surgical endodontic treatment
  3. Based on the Current Best Evidence, discuss the healing outcome predictors after nonsurgical and surgical endodontic treatment
 
Affiliations:
American Association of Endodontists
Canadian Academy of Endodontics
University of Toronto
 
 
Bio:

Dr. Shimon Friedman is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. He received the D.M.D. degree (1975) and endodontics certificate (1983) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He is board-certified in endodontics in Israel and served as Chairman of the Israel Endodontic Society from 1985 to 1988.

Prof. Friedman served as Head of Endodontics in Toronto for 20 years (1992-2012), and as the founding Director of the MSc Program in Endodontics for 22 years (1993-2015). Under his leadership, the M.Sc. Endodontics Program at the University of Toronto gained international recognition for its excellence.

Prof. Friedman has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, textbook chapters, and research abstracts, and has presented over 330 international lectures.

Prof. Friedman is the recipient of several awards, including the 2006 Louis I. Grossman Award by the French Endodontic Society, the 2008 Louis I. Grossman Award from the American Association of Endodontists (for “cumulative publication of significant research studies that have made an extraordinary contribution to endodontology”), the 2013 W.W. Wood Award from the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry (for “excellence in dental education”), the 2014 Award of Distinction from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, the 2018 I.B. Bender Lifetime Educator Award from the American Association of Endodontists and Life Membership in the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Fraternity, Tau Tau Chapter. In 2015, Prof. Friedman was designated an Honorary Diplomate of the Indian Board of Endodontics.

 

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