EP-4 - The Trouble with Cracks

Saturday, April 5, 2025

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

Location: Hynes Convention Center, Floor 3, Room 312

Earn 1.25 CE Credits

Speaker(s)

Karen J. Bruggers, DDS MS (she/her/hers)

Chair Department of Prosthodontics
LSU Health Dental
New Orleans, Louisiana

Disclosure(s): LSU Health Dental: Employment (Ongoing)

Handouts
Rob Roda, DDS MS (he/him/his)

Attending
NYU Langone AEGD Program
Scottsdale, Arizona

Disclosure(s): Dentsply: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

Session Host(s)

Mark A. Odom, D.D.S. (he/him/his)

Endodontist Faculty member
LSU Health School of Dentistry
New Orleans , Louisiana

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):

Karen J. Bruggers, DDS MS: LSU Health Dental: Employment (Ongoing)

Rob Roda, DDS MS: Dentsply: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

Mark A. Odom, D.D.S.: No financial relationships to disclose

This session will present an interdisciplinary overview of detecting, diagnosing, treating and restoring teeth with fractures and cracks, both large and small. The presenters will review endodontics and restorative evaluation of fracture lines and cracks and discuss how the endodontist and restorative dentist communicate to make the best decisions to present to a patient for long term success of the endodontics/restorative procedures based on current endodontics and restorative EBD.

Learning Objectives:

Determine the severity of fractures/cracks in teeth and work with their restorative colleagues on managing, restoring or making a decision to extract a tooth based on the patient's clinical presentation.
Determine the long term prognosis of care rendered.
Describe an evidenced based decision for treatment options and selection of restorative materials and treatments for the best long term results.