Falk Schwendicke

PhD, Dr med dent, MDPH

Deputy Director, Professor if University Clinic for Operative and Preventive Dentistry, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health. Professor, Cariology and Preventive Dentistry. Associate Editor, Journal of Dental Research. Chair, German Network for Evidence Based Medicine Dentistry Group. Vice President German Society of Oral Epidemiology and Health Services Research.

Video lecture topics:

Video lecture 1. Contemporary caries management. Video lecture 2. Caries infiltration: Managing caries, ensuring aesthetics. Video lecture 3. Caries excavation: Leaving bacteria - a sin or a good deed? Video lecture 4. Modern restorative approach: From small holes and bulk fills.
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    Contemporary caries management

    • Falk Schwendicke - Contemporary caries management
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    Caries infiltration: Managing caries, ensuring aesthetics

    • Falk Schwendicke - Caries infiltration: Managing caries, ensuring aesthetics
  • 3

    Caries excavation: Leaving bacteria - a sin or a good deed?

    • Falk Schwendicke - Caries excavation: Leaving bacteria - a sin or a good deed?
  • 4

    Modern restorative approach: From small holes and bulk fills

    • Falk Schwendicke - Modern restorative approach: From small holes and bulk fills

Detailed program of the video courses:

Caries Management Today: From Theory to Practice.

Today's dentists have an ever-increasing selection of instruments, methods and strategies for caries diagnosis and treatment. 

With this increasing choice, however, there is a need to choose between different options and then apply them according to the situation. 

The decision-making processes associated with this are often intuitive - and yet they are complex when the prevalence of caries is declining on the one hand and becoming increasingly polarized on the other. 

The planned daycourse will follow this decision processes, from detection over non-invasive methods to micro-invasive methods such as caries sealing or infiltration. 

Based on the question of whether caries may be sealed, the therapy of deep lesions close to the pulp will then be reconsidered and practical concepts for maintaining pulp vitality will be presented and evaluated from a cariological and restorative perspective. 

In particular, the question of why caries is treated by excavation and how this excavation can be assessed will be addressed. 

Moreover, materials for maintaining pulp vitality and restoration of extensive cavities and their application will also be discussed.

- Key points will therefore be discussed:

- Caries pathogenesis

- Non-invasive strategies, infiltration and sealing

- Deep lesions and pulp exposure; long-term consequences

- Preservation of pulp vitality; "modern" treatments to maintain pulp vitality

- Excavation strategies for shallow and deep lesions in the permanent and primary dentition

- Restorative aspects