title: Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: safe driving, better endo.
abstract: Each stage in the process of evaluation and subsequent treatment should be performed both slowly and progressively. In this example, first to appreciate the challenges in fragment removal, then to remove the fragment (or refer), achieve patency, shape the canals, obturate, and place a coronal restoration. Much like a cave dive that is highly planned and rehearsed and carried out in successive and progressively building steps, to the greatest extent possible so should our endodontic procedures. Ideally, there should be no surprises. Once begun, performing every step in a sequential order allows the process (whether it's cave diving or endodontics), to be at first slow, then smooth, and ultimately fast.
authors.affiliation: richardmounce@mounceendo.com
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Mounce
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003762:Dental Instruments / Q000009:adverse effects; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012389:Root Canal Obturation / Q000379:methods*; D018915:Root Canal Preparation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012390:Root Canal Therapy / Q000379:methods*