John Millar
Endodontics Resident, Jefferson Health
During my four years as a GP, I rarely knew what my final obturation radiograph was going to look like. I applied for endo residency and my personal statement opened with that admission of suboptimal obturation skills. Halfway through my first year of residency, my obturations were becoming more conventional, so you could imagine my dismay when another company showed up to clinic with a new obturation method they wanted the residents to employ. Here I was, just getting used to gutta percha, and now they were going to throw something new at me. I told the ODNE crew that I would not be participating—I wasn’t comfortable with the material. At lunch, however, I was briefly shown the technique; it was intuitive and straightforward. I pivoted during that 15 minute tutorial and completed two cases after lunch with ODNE. No stress, no fuss, great results. Not even two weeks later, I was doing an ODNE fill for my wife. My final obturation radiographs have produced a significantly less amount of anxiety lately because the material flows easily through the root canal system and allows for solid, predictable fills.