‘We can treat only what we can see’.
Optical aids (loupes, microscopes, surgical headlamps, fiber optic handpiece lights, etc.) can improve resolution by many orders of magnitude. For example, a common operating microscope can raise the resolving limit from 0.2 mm to .006 mm (6 microns), which is a dramatic improvement. Micro-endodontics or Microsurgical endodontics is an aspect of the endodonic therapy that evolved after the introduction of the Dental Operating Microscope (DOM) to endodontics in the late 1990s. Illumination and magnification through the Microscope has fundamentally and radically changed the way endo surgery can be performed.
Microendodontics allow procedures on exceptionally small and complex structures with an operating microscope. Microscope in Endodontic Surgery will give clinicians the necessary means to treat difficult cases with a higher degree of confidence and clinical success.This instrument enables the surgeon to assess pathological changes more precisely and to treat pathological lesions with the greatest precision, thus minimizing tissue damage during surgery.
There is an immense difference between traditional Endodontics and Microendodontics. The dramatic evolution from Endo Surgery to Micro-Endo Surgery has enlarged the horizon of therapeutic options. Improved visualization of the working field has shown to expand diagnostic power in difficult clinical situations and allows excellent evaluation of clinical data to accelerate the correct choice.
Operating microscopes have a steep learning curve, and mastering them requires training as well as patience and practice. Still, this piece of equipment and the learning effort it implies are well worth it, as cases that once seemed impossible can now be treated with a high degree of confidence and clinical success.
‘SEE BETTER…DO BETTER’.