The Ontario Society of Endodontists, founded in 1975, is the voluntary Society that represents the certified endodontic specialists in the Province of Ontario. The Ontario Society of Endodontists represents its members’ interests by assuring the optimum professional development of Ontario Endodontists as well as promoting the value of its members’ services to our dental colleagues, other dental organizations and recognized educational institutions. The Ontario Society of Endodontists accomplishes this through its own efforts as well as through cooperation and liaison with other dental organizations.
Endodontics is the branch of dentistry concerned with the morphology, physiology and pathology of the human dental pulp and peri-radicular tissues. Its study and practice encompass the basic and clinical sciences including the biology of the normal pulp and the etiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries of the pulp and associate peri-radicular conditions.
The scope of practice for endodontics includes but is not limited to: diagnosis and treatment of oral pain of pulpal and/or peri-radicular origin; differential diagnosis of facial pain; vital pulp therapies; non surgical endodontic ( root canal ) therapy; selective surgical removal of pathological tissues resulting from pulpal pathosis; repair of root defects; intentional replantation; surgical removal of tooth structure such as apicoectomy, tooth sectioning and root amputation; treatment of dento-alveolar injuries; bleaching of discoloured dentin and enamel of teeth; treatment of teeth previously treated endodontically; treatment procedures related to coronal restoration by means of post and/or cores involving the root canal space; placement of endodontic( endosseous ) or osseo-integrated implants and guided tissue regeneration where treatment relates to concurrent endodontic treatment.
Endodontists are dental specialists who have completed dental school and have studied for up to an additional three years in an accredited advanced specialty education program in endodontics. Because they are specialists, they limit their practices to endodontic procedures. They perform routine as well as difficult and very complex endodontic procedures.
