Post Operative Pain after Endodontics – Prevention and Management – GF017

From the entire Protrusive Community - we wish Sanj a speedy recovery - keep smiling Sanj and stay strong! In the previous episode with Sanj Bhanderi on 'how to extirpate properly and efficiently', we briefly touched on postoperative pain control. In this episode, we're focusing more on postoperative pain and the dreaded severe pain after the obturation appointment (or in-between visits). https://youtu.be/RJzQZNhBup0 Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlight of this episode: 2:27 Post-op pain after endodontic treatment7:43 Flare-ups9:46 Guidelines in antibiotic microbial management11:03 Flare up in between visits (RCT has not been finished yet) 13:40 Crown Down approach Dr Finlay Sutton is coming down South for his one-day signature RPD Masterclass on Saturday 14th of January 2023!  Limited to 12 delegates, reserve your seat now! If you enjoyed this, you might also like my episode with another talented Endodontist, Dr Ammar Al-Hourani, on Is Single Point Obturation Acceptable?  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: I wanted to start this podcast with a get well soon message for our guest, Dr. Sanj Bhanderi who did such a brilliant job with our last group function on how to extirpate quickly and properly. Now, unfortunately, after we recorded that episode, and after we recorded this one, Sanj felt acutely unwell. It was actually scary hearing the news of him being ill. But I'm getting some positive updates. And so we the Protrusive Dental Community, and then all dentists around the world. We wish Sanj a speedy recovery. We hope you get well soon. We're so glad you're okay and on the mend. And we want to pass on these wishes to you. It's been quite clear on social media, what a likable guy you are, and how much we all want you to make a speedy recovery mate. So wishing you all the best and get well soon from Team protrusive. Jaz's Introduction:I bet this scenario sounds very familiar to you imagine you're on a course you having a great time. I personally love courses, I think you all know that. You're on your fifth coffee, and everything's going great. And suddenly your pocket starts vibrating. You've got a call from the practice or text message informing receptionist saying that, 'Mrs. Smith, you know, the root canal that you saw yesterday, she's in absolute agony.' And you curse because you think wow, you know, that was a completely straightforward root canal procedure. The patient was asymptomatic before you even started. Why is this happening for me? Look, post-op pain after endodontics is an absolute bitch. It's one of those annoying things ever actually puts me off doing root canal treatment because of the one in harmony of a chance that post op pain instance is going to happen. And I'm going to discuss with Sanj Bhanderi who does such a brilliant job in that GF016, where we talk about how to extirpate properly and efficiently. So if you haven't listened to that one, oh my goodness, you are in for a treat. Go back and listen to that one. But in this episode, we're focusing more on post op pain like how do you manage that kind of scenario? What do you say to the patient? How can you prevent this from even happening in the first place? You know, it's funny I've actually had four root canals on my own self and before you think, 'Oh, Jaz is disgusting, you got caries, etc.' No, it's actually trauma from orthodontics. Can you believe it? Orthodontics devitalize, my lower four incisors, and I've had all sorts of issues and root canals and fractures, etc, etc. And now have a resin bonded zirconia bridge, hence why I'm so passionate about those bridges. Anyway, I experienced post op pain myself, it was a nasty thing. It was lots of inflammation. And so I've been there and I totally empathize with my patients. Before we joined the main episode I want to say yesterday I released new tickets to Finlay Sut...