3-Day Masterclass in Vital Pulp Therapy & Dental Trauma

General Information

Tuition fees: 790€
Dates: MAY 16-17-18, 2025

Summary of MasterClass

The 3-day MasterClass on Vital Pulp Therapy (VPT) and management of Traumatic Dental Injuries (TDI) has been specifically designed to assist every practicing dentist in acquiring all necessary knowledge and developing appropriate skills to successfully apply modern bio-ceramic materials in cases of advanced carious lesions and to manage any dental trauma scenario in pediatric, adolescent, or adult patients. Participants will gain all necessary knowledge regarding the management of pediatric patients in the clinic, the establishment of preventive programs, the administration of painless electric or conventional anesthesia, and the proper use and application of contemporary bio-ceramic materials in various techniques for preserving the vitality of the pulp in cases of deep caries or dental trauma. They will also be able to successfully manage and perform practical exercises in Vital Pulp Therapies and immediate restorative procedures with several pulp capping techniques and deep margin elevation techniques.

Regarding Dental Trauma, a detailed explanation will be provided on the provision of first aid for TDI in permanent and primary dentition. The main goal is for the dentist to be able to confidently handle and diagnose each category of TDI separately, recognize which tissues are involved in each injury, inform the patient about the treatment planning and long term prognosis, and successfully manage possible post-traumatic complications according to the severity of each injury. Participants will perform practical exercises on specially constructed models in the proper repositioning of traumatized teeth, suturing of soft tissues, and application of various splinting techniques. They will have the opportunity to practice on single-visit apexification and placement of apical barrier techniques on immature teeth with open apices on special immature teeth models. In the last day, participants will have the opportunity to fully understand and practice the construction of customized individual athletic mouthguards for the prevention of traumatic dental injuries.

The aim of this comprehensive Masterclass is for the dentist, through a series of lectures, hands-on activities, and discussions on simple as well as complex cases, to be able to choose the most appropriate treatment having practiced and acquired the ability to clinically apply all modern techniques as well as contempoary bioceramic materials. Furthermore, they should be able to confidently provide first aid for any dental trauma case that may come in their clinic. The seminar covers a wide range of topics from prevention treatment and restorative rehabilitation of teeth with deep caries. It also aims to provide the latest guidelines for effective and up to date management of traumatic dental injuries and complications.

Specially designed models have been constructed for all hands-on sessions exclusively for this seminar.

The topics include

Vital Pulp Treatments and Endodontic treatment of immature teeth

Oral health guidelines in childhood.
Management of pediatric patients.
Electric vs conventional anesthesia.
Pulp physiology and inflammation mechanism.
Mechanism of caries and classification.
Diagnosis of pulp diseases.
Direct or indirect pulp capping.
Partial pulpotomy.
Full pulpotomy.
Success factors of vital pulp treatments.
Success rates of vital pulp treatments.
Clinical guide – Protocol for deep caries management and selection of appropriate vital pulp therapy.
Immediate prosthetic restoration after vital pulp therapy.
Deep margin elevation.
Restorative treatment and use of glass fiber posts in immature teeth.
Use of modern bioceramic materials in vital pulp treatments. Presentation and comparison of different bioceramic materials, composition, and application methods.
Endodontic treatment in immature teeth with open apices using modern bioceramic materials and techniques.
Apical barrier formation with bioceramic material.
Techniques of root canal obturation with bioceramic sealers and gutta-percha.
Regenerative endodontics.

Management of dental trauma in children and adults

Epidemiology and etiology of dental trauma.
Classification and categorization of dental trauma.
Management of dental trauma in permanent dentition.
Management of dental trauma in primary dentition.
Aesthetic restoration of traumatized teeth.
Splinting – types of splints, indications, and duration.
Role of CBCT in diagnosis and management of dental trauma.
Post-traumatic complications, categories, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
Internal and External resorptions.
Pulp canal obliteration.
Vital pulp therapy in traumatized teeth- indications and techniques for preserving the pulp in traumatized teeth.
Endodontic treatment in traumatized immature teeth with open apices.
Classification of immature teeth with open apices.
Diagnosis of traumatized teeth with open apices.
Apexification technique.
Revascularization and apexogenesis technique.
Clinical guide and criteria for selecting each technique.
Success factors and success rates of various endodontic treatments in immature teeth.
Autotransplantation (replantation) of teeth after dental trauma.
Surgical removal of crown (decoronation) after dental trauma, indications, and application techniques.
Prevention of dental trauma, customized protective mouthguards, categories, advantages, and disadvantages.

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Educators

Dr. Nestor Tzimpoulas DDS, MSc, FIADT, Endodontist

Dr. Nestor Tzimpoulas graduated from the School of Dentistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2009. Between 2010-12 he was clinica instructor in the department of Endodontics at Athens School of Dentistry. In 2013, he was accepted at the 3-year post-graduate program in Endodontics at ACTA University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which he successfully completed in 2016. From 2016 until today, he has been working in a private practice limited to Endodontics in The Hague, the Netherlands and since 2019 he has returned to Greece and owns a private practice in the center of Athens which specializes exclusively in Endodontics and Dental Traumatology.

Dr. Nestor Tzimpoulas is the first Greek dentist who has received the Fellowship Award of the International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) after he successfully passed the examination process in 2021. He has been author and co-author of several peer review international publications and has lectured nationally and internationally on vital pulp therapies, dental trauma and management of immature teeth. He is certified for the translation to Greek language of the official guidelines for the management of traumatic dental injuries published by the International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT 2020) and the first aid app for mobile phones ToothSOS. In 2021 Dr. Tzimpoulas founded an integrated online platform www.dentaltrauma.gr. with the aim of informing Greek patients and dentists about prevention, first aid and management of complex traumatic dental injuries.

Dr. Theodoros Tasopoulos, DDS, MSc, PhD, Prosthodontist

Dr Theodoros Tasopoulos graduated from the School of Dentistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2004. He continued his studies at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) and received his Master of Science degree in Prosthodontics in 2008.

Dr Tasopoulos successfully completed his thesis and was awarded a PhD degree in 2023. He is a member of several scientific societies and he has authored and co-authored a number of scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he gives lectures and continuing education courses in the field of digital restorative dentistry, mouthguards and splint therapy. He has served as a digital dental specialist for 3Shape (KOL), since 2021. Dr Tasopoulos has been practicing in his own dental clinic in Athens since 2008, where he practices all aspects of Restorative, Esthetic and Implant Dentistry.

Prof. Dr. Kosmas Tolidis, DDS, MSc, PhD, LSO, Pediatric Dentist
Graduated from the Dental School of Thessaloniki on 1989

· 1991-1993 Master’s Degree on Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Bristol UK.
· 1996 PhD from the University of Thessaloniki on Dental Materials with excellence.
· 2016 Mastership on Dental Laser at the University of Aachen in Germany.

At the moment is:

· Professor and Head, with the Dept. of Operative Dentistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
· Head, of High Dental Technology Unit at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
· Coordinator, of the Postgraduate Program of Operative Dentistry-Direct Esthetic restorations, at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
· Coordinator, of the Continuous Education Program of Restorative/Esthetic Dentistry, at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki
· Coordinator, of the Greek State Exams for Dentistry at DOATAP
· President, of the Hellenic Academy for Laser Dentistry

He authored approximately 100 scientific papers in English and in Greek and two textbooks in Greek, “Direct esthetic restorations, 2004” and “Solving clinical problems in Pediatric Dentistry, 2006”.

He served as:

· Chief Dental Officer of Hellenic Republic
· President, of Stomatological Society of Northern Greece
· Secretary General of the Hellenic Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry
· President of Dental Society of Thessaloniki
· Vice-President of “Aghios Pavlos” hospital of Thessaloniki
· Member of Administrative Council of DOATAP
· Member of the council of the Hellenic Dental Association
· President of the scientific committee of the Hellenic Dental Association
· President of the Panhellenic Dental Congress

His research interest is on minimal invasive cosmetic dentistry, esthetic restorative dentistry, biomaterials and pediatric dentistry.
From 1989 he owns a private dental clinic in Thessaloniki dedicated to esthetic and pediatric dentistry.

Dr. Panagiota Kardara, DDS, Dentist

Dr. Panagiota Kardara, graduated from the School of Dentistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2010 within the first ten students of her class. Between 2010-2012 she was working in Athens and in March 2012 she was authorised as clinical assistant in the department of Endodontics in Dental School of Athens. During the period 2012-2017 Dr. Kardara moved to The Netherlands and has been working as general dentist in private practices in The Hague, The Netherlands and in the field of Paediatric Dentistry at Erasmus Hospital in Rotterdam.

Due to her passion in delivering the best treatment options to her patients she followed the courses of Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry of professors Dr. Dietschi and Dr. Pascal Magne in Geneva In Switzerland, where she was taught direct and indirect restorations of anterior and posterior teeth with the use of dental microscope and elaborated on treatment planning for patients who suffer from toothwear-erosion. Moreover, she followed a Master in Specialised Orthodontics in Amsterdam in completed in cooperation with the International University of Munster.

In 2017 she moved back to Greece and owns two practices in Messinia where she mostly works under microscope in the field of Endodontics ,Restorative and Paediatric Dentistry. In January 2024 she was accepted at the post-graduate Master Proggramme in Endodontics at the University of Sienna. She participated as co-author in several publications and has been speaker at several national congresses in Greece but also at schools, schools for children with special needs, and at ’ child health clinics’ in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Dr. Katerina Koleventi, DDS, MSc, Pediatric Dentist

Katerina Koleventi graduated from the Dental School of Thessaloniki and the Military School of Officer Corps in 2008. From 2008 to 2011 she worked at the 251 General Air Hospital as a Dentist Officer and then entered the Three-Year Master’s Program of Dentistry in Thessaloniki, specializing in Pediatric Dentistry. During her postgraduate studies, she took part in two COST ACTION research projects due to her interest in health issues related to the collaboration of specialties. She participated in the writing of a manual that prepares children with autism for the visit and treatment at the dental office which can be found at www.makaton.gr in collaboration with speech therapists, psychologists.

He is a member of the Hellenic Pediatric Dentistry Association, the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry, the International Association of Dental Traumatology. She has participated in various research papers that have been published in peer review scientific journals and has given speeches at scientific conferences both in Greece and abroad. The group of her dental offices are in Attica, Thessaloniki and Argolis.

Dr. Miguel Marques MD, DDS, MSc, Endodontist

Dr. Miguel Marques graduated from University of Lisbon in the college of dentistry in 2000 and in the college of medicine in 2007. In 2014, he completed the post-graduate program in endodontics at the Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA) at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
From 2014 until today, he has been working in private practice limited to Endodontics in Amsterdam and Haarlem, in The Netherlands.
He has been author and co-author of several peer review international publications and has lectured nationally and internationally on vital pulp treatment, crack teeth and restoration of endodontically treated teeth.

Program Description

DAY 1	Friday May 16th, 2025
	Vital Pulp Therapies
08:30-09:00	Welcome, introductions, presentation of speakers and attendees
09:00-10:30	Katerina Koleventi – Oral health guide in the childhood and management of pediatric patients. – Prenatal preventive dentistry for parents, determination of endodontic risk at the first appointment (risk assessment), dietary advice, oral hygiene instructions, establishment of preventive programs. – Determination of follow-ups and radiographic imaging, behavior shaping techniques, painless conventional and electric anesthesia, tips and tricks for successful treatments. – Hypocalcification of enamel in childhood, epidemiology, etiology, early diagnosis, and treatment
10:30-11:00	Break – Coffee and Snack
11:00-12:30	Nestor Tzimpoulas – Diagnosis of pulp diseases: Biology and pathophysiology of the pulp, categorization of pulpitis, mechanism of pulp and periapical inflammation, the dentin-pulp complex. – Vital Pulp Therapy in posterior teeth with deep caries and traumatized anterior permanent teeth: Indirect pulp capping, Direct pulp capping, Partial pulpotomy, Full pulpotomy. Indications and contraindications, case presentations, technical guidance. – Detailed explanation for each stage, prognostic factors and success rates.
12:30-14:00	Detailed presentation of modern bioceramic materials
14:00-15:00	Lunch Break
15:00-16:30	Practical Exercise Nestoras Tzimpoulas – Demonstration by the instructor and practical exercise by the participants under the supervision of trainers in: Direct pulp capping, partial pulpotomy, full pulpotomy with bioceramic materials.
16:30-18:00	Miguel Marques (Live Streaming from The Netherlands) – Deep margin elevation and direct cusp coverage composite (direct onlay) restoration after VTP
18:00-19:30	Practical Exercise Panagiota Kardara – Demonstration by the instructor and practical exercise by the participants under the supervision of trainers in: Direct cusp coverage composite restoration after Vital Pulp Therapy and deep margin elevation.

DAY 2	Saturday May 17th, 2025
	Management and Prevention of Dental Trauma in Children and Adults
09:00-10:30	Katerina Koleventi & Nestor Tzimpoulas Trauma I – Permanent Dentition – First aid. Reception of the injured patient in the clinic and telephone instructions, epidemiology, etiology, predisposing factors, trauma history. – Classification of dental trauma, use of Dentaltrauma.gr, ToothSOS app, and dentaltraumaguide.org. Hard Dental Τissue Fractures Diagnosis, classification, first aid in the clinic, treatment, presentation of clinical cases for each trauma category
10:30-11:00	Break – Coffee and Snack
11:00-12:30	Trauma II – Permanent Dentition Nestor Tzimpoulas & Panagiota Kardara Periodontal Trauma and Supporting Tissues Displacements – Diagnosis, classification, first aid in the clinic, treatment, presentation of clinical cases for each trauma category. The role of CBCT in dental trauma. – Immobilization: Types of splints, advantages and disadvantages, indications and contraindications for splinting, splinting durations in permanent dentition.
12:30-14:00	Practical Exercise Panagiota Kardara – Demonstration by the instructor and practical training of the participants under the supervision of instructors in various techniques for reattaching fractured segments of injured anterior teeth. – Preparation of both the tooth and the fractured segment for rebonding. – Presentation and practice in the esthetic rehabilitation technique with composite resin using a silicone key.
14:00-15:00	Lunch Break
15:00-16:00	Trauma III – Primary Dentition Katerina Koleventi – Hard dental tissue fractures and periodontal tissues traumatic injuries. – Diagnosis, classification, first aid in the clinic, treatment.
16:00-17:30	Practical Exercise Nestor Tzimpoulas & Panagiota Kardara Restoration of Fractures in Hard Dental Tissues – Description of the properties of direct restorative materials. – Adhesive restorative dentistry. – Use of auxiliary techniques to reinforce dental structures.
17:30-19:00	Practical Exercise Nestor Tzimpoulas & Panagiota Kardara – Demonstration by the instructor and practical exercise by the participants under the supervision of trainers in: Re-implantation of injured teeth in 3D models and practice of placing 2 different types of splints. – Practical demonstration of the Benex Extractor Kit for safe, atraumatic repositioning of injured teeth.

DAY 3	Sunday May 18th, 2025
	Management and Prevention of Dental Trauma in Children and Adults
09:00-10:00	Nestor Tzimpoulas Post-Traumatic Complications A. Necrosis – Endodontic treatment in immature traumatized teeth with open apices. Chemical-mechanical processing. Comparison and use of different bioceramic materials and substances, composition, advantages and disadvantages, case presentations. – Apical barrier technique with bioceramic materials and regenerative techniques for immature teeth.
10:00-11:30	Practical Exercise Nestor Tzimpoulas Demonstration by the instructor and practical exercise by the participants under the supervision of trainers in: – Endodontic treatment of immature teeth with bioceramic materials. Apical barrier technique with bioceramic materials. – Sealing technique with bioceramic filling material and gutta-percha. – Demonstration and practical exercise by trainer via microscope.
11:30-12:00	Break – Coffee and Snacks
11:00-13:30	Nestor Tzimpoulas B. Resorptions: – Tooth resorptions: Classification (internal, external), ankylosis, resorption probabilities, diagnosis, treatment, presentation of clinical cases. C. Calcifications: – Pulp canal obliteration: When to expect it, when intervention is needed, treatment techniques for obliterated anterior teeth. – Aesthetic restoration of discolored traumatized teeth, internal bleaching. D. Extractions: – Extraction of traumatized teeth in childhood. What do we do now? – Tooth Autotransplantation. – Decoronation.
13:30-14:30	Lunch Break
14:30-15:30	Theodoros Tasopoulos Prevention of dental trauma: Categorization of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary), types of mouthguards, prefabricated, partially customized, customized, advantages and disadvantages.
15:30-17:30	Practical Exercise Theodoros Tasopoulos Demonstration by the instructor and practical exercise by the participants under the supervision of trainers in: Construction of customized protective mouthguards.