E-School:
Online Endodontic
Continuing Education
for General Dentists

Before you can treat, refer, or make recommendations, every case starts with a diagnosis. This module will help you tweak your current diagnostic protocol to make the best decisions for your patients.

You’ll learn:

• Improved diagnostic protocol you can use on every new or emergency patient — starting now.
• The number one most important step to achieving a proper diagnosis.
• How making the right diagnosis (and understanding it) shapes your treatment process.
• How your interpretation of tests can make or break your diagnosis — and the valuable tests you may be forgetting.
• How to break down your patients’ diagnosis to help them understand what’s happening inside their mouth (and why this matters for your bottom line).

Ask any patient what makes for a great dentist. They won’t think about your degrees, certifications, or even prices. Instead, they’ll judge you by your ability to keep them relatively pain-free and ensure successful outcomes. That’s why this module is so vital to your reputation, your relationship with your patients, and the success of your practice.

You’ll learn:

• The number one key to proper pain management, so you can keep your patients happy.
• The different types of pain and how listening to your patients will help you identify how to proceed.
• When to give antibiotics and/or pain medication, and when not to, so you always prescribe the correct treatment.
• Which anesthetic techniques will ensure great patient reviews and make root canals easy for everyone.
• How to ensure an easier postoperative recovery for your patients so they’re pleasantly surprised by how well their procedures go.
• What to tell patients what to expect after a root canal and how to anticipate their symptoms, so you become their trusted tooth guru.

It’s back to the basics, but with an experienced, real-world spin. By revisiting your understanding of root canal anatomy, methods of access, instrumentation, methods of obturation, and expert obturation techniques, you’ll further improve your outcomes in no time.

You’ll learn:

• The two cardinal rules of root canals you may not be following.
• What to do to give you that pretty x-ray, which is often how your colleagues will judge your success.
• How instrumentation methods can make or break a case, to help you achieve better outcomes.
• What’s even more important than instrumentation, so you know what to focus on.
• How to troubleshoot your obturation techniques to help you figure out how you can improve.
• How anatomy may impact your root canals to give you a better idea of what to watch out for with your patients.

Even with all your careful diagnostic work, cracked teeth can really change the game. They can be difficult to spot, and they can make it difficult for patients to pinpoint the source of their pain. However, they can almost always be saved — whereas vertical root fractures cannot.

You’ll learn:

• Why cracks create problems and what causes them, so you properly diagnose your patients.
• Clues that a tooth is actually cracked, helping you give your patients the right diagnosis the first time before you unnecessarily condemn their tooth to be extracted.
• The exact protocol to use for patients where a crack with reversible pulpitis is suspected, removing the guesswork.
• How to let your CBCT guide you into making the right diagnosis.
• How to get reimbursed when you’ve spent considerable time on a tooth only to discover it has to be extracted.

Trauma doesn’t come along everyday, which means it can be easy to forget exactly how to handle it. When you know these important steps and guidelines, you’ll be better equipped to handle trauma and resorption cases and feel confident in the steps you and your patients should take.

You’ll learn:

• Expert endo secrets to managing all the different types of trauma, so you know what to do in every situation.
• What to expect (for you and your patient) after trauma, to make sure your patients feel comfortable, heard, and understood.
• The number one rule in splinting, so you splint like an expert and gain an optimal prognosis for your patients.
• They key for success in all trauma and resorption cases, to shoot your outcomes through the roof.

Because CBCT is anything but plug-and-play, it has a steep learning curve and is often neglected as a valuable tool in the dentist’s arsenal. However, with some practice and a deeper understanding of this technology, you’ll see that it’s truly a gamechanger for your practice and your patients.

You’ll learn:

• The endodontic applications of CBCT, including diagnostics, treatment, and follow-up.
• How understanding CBCT can improve outcomes and make you a more confident practitioner.
• Quick and easy steps to increase your confidence with CBCT — it doesn’t take much!
• How to leverage CBCT to discover the true cause of root canal failures so you know how to proceed.

After a trauma, teeth can discolor as they heal. This can be the result of an improperly performed root canal or the trauma, itself — but internal bleaching can be used to restore the tooth’s natural color.

You’ll learn:

• How to prevent discoloration after a root canal in the first place.
• When you should and should not recommend internal bleaching, so you make the best decisions with your patients.
• How to perform internal bleaching, step-by-step, and avoid its potential dangers.
• The exact products you’ll need to get the job done right, to save your hours of research time
• How to get reimbursed for this procedure and increase the profitability of your practice.

You’ll learn:

• What MTA is and why it’s so great.
• When you should and shouldn’t use MTA, so you know when to apply this knowledge.
• The exact, step-by-step guide to using MTA, so you can feel confident in your treatment.

E-School with Coaching is offered once or twice a year and lasts for 8 weeks, with weekly coaching calls and access to the private Facebook community. Enrollment is offered in January and September.

On your computer or the device of your choice (like a tablet at lunch, or your phone on the treadmill).

E-School LIVE is an in-person event only open to E-School graduates that takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina.

While the E-School lessons are web-based videos and downloadable tip sheets, there is still a way to add tangible learning to the course. I recommend you collect extracted teeth and utilize the tactics I teach there, before you take your shiny new education to your patients. When you join E-School with Coaching, I can help you troubleshoot virtually in our weekly coaching calls.

What’s more, when you have completed E-School, you will be eligible to attend E-School LIVE, a live patient, hands-on 3-day training with a small group of your colleagues and me.

E-School is made up of nearly 30 video lessons over 8 modules. You can move as fast or slow through the course as you like, since you have lifetime access. It is up to you whether you commit 1 hour a week or 3 hours a day to study the lessons and resources. There are approximately 10 hours of videos included in the curriculum. I do recommend going through the program twice to make sure you absorbed it all.

I understand; a lot of general dentists don’t, and that’s part of why I created this course. You may discover you’re more interested in RCT than ever before when you join E-School.

However, you may find, during E-School, that you DON’T want to do root canals, and that’s okay, too!

First of all, only 1 of the 8 modules is about root canal therapy. The others are about topics like diagnosis, antibiotics, CBCT, and more — and are helpful for any dentist! Endo is about SO much more than root canals.

Second of all, think about how much chair time, equipment costs, and retreatment costs you’ll save if you decide your limits and stick to them! The course will pay for itself in no time.

By joining E-School with Coaching, you can get all your questions answered. Together, we can dive into clinical topics like apicoectomies and retreatments. We can even cover business topics like efficiency and billing. This is one of the unique benefits of E-School with Coaching, which is open for enrollment only one to two times a year.

The #EndoRocks Box is one of my favorite goodies in the E-School with Coaching program (not available for E-School Independent).

Inside, you’ll get my favorite endo files, tools, and products to help you streamline your procedures. We’ll discuss the items within the course so you can give them a shot.

The #EndoRocks Box can be shipped anywhere in the world, but shipping to addresses outside the USA and Canada is $50 USD and is the responsibility of the recipient, as are any taxes or duties levied by the receiving country. Recipients may opt out of receiving an #EndoRocks Box.

See what one student thought of the Box:

Yes! Dentistry is universal, and GOOD endodontics can be applied anywhere in the world!

We encourage you to share some of these lessons and download tip sheets with your dental team, but your enrollment is for a single user. Continuing education credits and access into the private Facebook group are only given to the enrolled member of E-School.

If you are an administrator or instructor at a dental school, please reach out to me directly at support@soniachopradds.com about purchasing an E-School license for your dental students.

Yes, when you complete the E-School curriculum and the final assessment in the course, you will get 10 CE credits. If you join E-School with Coaching, for every coaching call you attend, you can earn 1 additional CE credit for a total of up to 26 total credits for the course. Be sure to input your AGD number as the final step so you can be sure to have the credits applied to you!

If you go on to participate in E-School LIVE, you can earn 30 CE credits over the course of this 4-day live, hands-on event.

I do not currently offer scholarships to E-School, but giving back to the community is important to me. My current give-back efforts include providing free dental care to my local Charlotte, North Carolina community through E-School LIVE, free educational blogs for dentists, and periodic free CE webinars for dentists. Announcements about CE and blog content are made on my Instagram account (@soniachopradds) and email list (visit soniachopradds.com and click “subscribe”), so be sure to follow me and sign up.

If you have a technical question, regardless of which version of E-School you purchase, you can email my support team at support@soniachopradds.com and they’ll help you address your concern.

You can email support@soniachopradds.com.