1. Antibiotics
2. Infective Endocarditis Prophylaxis Recommendations
3. Biofilms
4. Bacteriology
5. Endodontic Pathology
6. Extraradicular Infections
7. Enterococcus Faecalis
8. Bacteriology and Flare Ups
9. Pain Control
10. Anticoagulants and Dental procedures

• Antibiotics for the Management of Endodontic Infections
• Endodontics in the adult patient: the role of antibiotics
• A Cochrane Systematic Review Finds No Evidence to Support the Use of Antibiotics for Pain Relief in Irreversible Pulpitis
• Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacteria Associated with Endodontic Abscesses
• The Importance of Bactericidal Drugs: Future Directions in Infectious Disease
• Responsible use of antibiotics in endodontic therapy - AAE
• Disinfection of Immature Teeth with a Triple Antibiotic Paste
• Antibiotic resistance and antibiotics in endodontics
• Recommendations for Antibiotics in Patients with Joint Prosthesis are Irresponsible and Indefensible - An opinion piece
• The Pregnant Patient: Considerations for Dental management and drug use.
• Susceptibility of Endodontic Pathogens to Antibiotics in Patients with Symptomatic Apical Periodontitis
• Clindamycin in dentistry: More than just effective prophylaxis for endocarditis?
  

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Infective Endocarditis Prophylaxis Recommendations

• New Antyibiotic Prophylaxis Guidelines 2007 
• Antibiotic prophylaxis
• Antibiotic prophylaxis in dentistry: A review and practice
• Clindamycin in dentistry: More than just effective prophylaxis for endocarditis?
• Endodontics and infective endocarditis – is antimicrobial chemoprophylaxis required?
• Guidelines for the prevention of endocarditis: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy   
• Which Antibiotic Prophylaxis Guidelines for Infective Endocarditis Should Canadian Dentists Follow?
• Prevention of Infective Endocarditis: Revised Guidelines from the American Heart Association and the Implications for Dentists
• Prevention of infective endocarditis: Guidelines from the American Heart Association
• NICE Guidelines ( U.K.) - Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis
• A D V I S O RY STAT E M E N T Antibiotic prophylaxis for dental patients with total joint replacements- JADA
• Responsible Use of Antibiotics in Endodontics - AAE
• Perspectives on the 2007 AHA EndocarditisPrevention Guidelines
• A legal perspective on antibiotic prophylaxis ADA DIVISION OF LEGAL AFFAIRS
  
  

Prophylaxis for Patients with Prosthetic Joints

• Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Bacteremia in Patients with Joint Replacements - New - Revised 2010
• The Dental Treatment of Patients with Joint Replacements: A Position Paper From the American Academy of Oral Medicine
  
  

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Biofilms

• Battling biofilms -Costerton
• Biofilm Formation in Medicated Root Canals
• Understanding Biofilms Dr. Gary Carr `s presentation to the Grossman Study Club,   Philadelphia, March 20, 2007 NEW
• Bacterial Conversations
• Battling Biofilms (short version)
• The Riddle of Biofilm Resistance
• Talking to the Hosts
• Apical Periodontitis - A Biofilm Disease
• Biofilms and Disease - JAMA Wolcott and Erlich 2008
• Ultrastructural Examination of Failed Molar Retreatment with Secondary Apical Periodontitis: :An Examination of Endodontic Biofilms in an Endodontic Retreatment Failure _ Carr et al 2009
• Diffusion in Biofilms
• Mechanism of Electrical Enhancement of Efficacy of Antibiotics in Killing Biofilm Bacteria
• Bacterial pathogenicity in a microbial ecosystem—ecological plaque hypothesis
• PHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE CONTROL OF ORAL BIOFILMS
• Clinical Implications and Microbiology of Bacterial Persistence after Treatment Procedures
• Host defence against  Staphylococcus aureus biofilms infection : Phagocytosis of biofilms by polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN)
• Evaluation of the effect of cleaning regimes on biofilms of thermophilic bacilli on stainless steel
• Ultrastructural Examination of Failed Molar Retreatment with Secondary Apical Periodontitis: An Examination of Endodontic Biofilms in an Endodontic Retreatment Failure
  
• That Lawn Between Your Teeth -USC The Annenberg Files - Costerton
• Engineering Approaches for the Detection and Control ofOrthopaedic Biofilm Infections
• Biofilms: MicrobiaLife on Surfaces
• Role of Fusobacterium nucleatum and Coaggregation inAnaerobe Survival in Planktonic and Biofilm OralMicrobial Communities during Aeration
• What Constitutes Dental Caries? Histopathology of Carious Enamel and Dentin Related to the Action of Cariogenic Biofilms
• Nanoparticulates for Antibiofilm Treatment and Effect of Aging on Its Antibacterial Activity
• Biofilms in endodontic infections
• Nanoparticulates for Antibiofilm Treatment and Effect of Aging on Its Antibacterial Activity
• Imaging of endodontic biofilms by combined microscopy(FISH/cLSM– SEM)
• The road to ruin: the formation of disease-associated oral biofilms
• Biofilms in swimming pools
• Oral multispecies biofilm development and the key role of cell–cell distance
• Biofilm Dissolution and Cleaning Ability of Different Irrigant Solutions on Intraorally Infected Dentin
• Hydrodynamic Deformation and Removal ofStaphylococcus epidermidis Biofilms Treated With Urea, Chlorhexidine, Iron Chloride, or DispersinB
• The Effect of 0.12% ChlorhexidineGluconate Rinsing on PreviouslyPlaque-Free and Plaque-CoveredSurfaces: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial
• Herpes virus Periodontitis : Infection Beyond Biofilm
• Biofilm Dissolution and Cleaning Ability of Different Irrigant Solutions on Intraorally Infected Dentin
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Bacteriology

• Essential Endododntology Textbook excerpt: Chapter 1 Apical Periodontitis: Microbial Infection and Host Responses
• Exploiting Molecular Methods to Explore Endodontic Infections: Part 1—Current Molecular Technologies for Microbiological Diagnosis
• Abusing technology? Culture-difficult microbes and microbial remnants   Nair OOO  2007
• Extraradicular Infections - A Bibliography - Courtesy Dr. Fred Barnett
  
• Capacity of anaerobic bacteria to induce purulent infections Sundqvist et al 1979
• Clinical Implications and Microbiology of Bacterial Persistence after Tx Procedures Siqueira et al 2008
• A Microbiological Profile of Symptomatic Teeth with Primary Endodontic Infections
• Bacterial Plurality as a General Mechanism Driving Persistence inChronic Infections
• How Useful Is Root Canal Culturing in PredictingTreatment Outcome?
• Bacteria 'Launch A Shield' To Resist Attack
• Clonal analysis of the microflora of infected root canals associated withe endodontic abscesses
• Invasion of  Dentinal Tubules By Oral Bacteria
• Oral viral infections of adults
• Infatuated by Enterococci
• Diversity of Endodontic Microbiota Revisited - Siqueira 2009
• Microbiota of Periapical Lesions Refractory to Endodontic Therapy
• Membrane Components of Treponema denticola Trigger Proteinase Release from Human Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes
• Evaluation of Protocols for Field DecontaminationBefore Bacterial Sampling of Root Canals for Contemporary Microbiology Techniques
• Discovering the Impact of Ronald Gibbons on Dental Research and Beyond
• Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Quantification ofPorphyromonas gingivalis and Tannerellaforsythia in Primary Endodontic Infections
• Enterococcus faecalis infection in root canals – host-derived or exogenous source? NEW
• Microbiological status of root-filled teeth with apical periodontitis
• Associations of endodontic symptoms and signs with particular combinations of specific bacteria
• Reduction of Intracanal Bacteria Using Nickel-Titanium Rotary Instrumentation and Various Medications
• New Cultivation Strategies Bring More Microbial Plankton Species into the Laboratory
• Survival against the odds:microbiology of root canals associated with post-treatment disease
• Mechanical Reduction of the Bacterial Population in the Root Canal by Three Instrumentation Techniques
• Diagnosis and management planning for root-filled teeth with persisting or new apical pathosis
• Exploring Bacterial Diversity of Endodontic Microbiota by Cloning and Sequencing 16S rRNA
  
  
  
  

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Endodontic Pathology and Apical Periodontitis

• Kakehashi and Stanley Classic Article -The Effects of Surgical Exposures of Dental Pulps in Germ Free and Conventional Laboratory Rats (000-1965)
• The evolving new understanding of endodontic infections
• Cognitive Dissonance in Endodontics - Seltzer and Bender
• A Microbiological Profile of Symptomatic Teeth with Primary Endodontic Infections
• Capacity of Anaerobic Bacteria from Necrotic Dental Pulps to Induce Purulent Infections
• Persistent, recurrent, and acquired infection of the root canal system post-treatment-Haapasalo Endo Topics 03
• Aetiology of root canal treatment failure: why well-treated teeth can fail - Siqueira IEJ `01
• Eradication of endodontic infection by instrumentation and irrigation solutions
• HCMV-Epstein Barr a role in pathogenesis Sunde et al 2008
• Proliferation of Epithelial Cell Rests, Formation of Apical Cysts, and Regression of Apical Cysts after Periapical Wound Healing
• Periapical Lesions (Powerpoint)
•  The warning signs of pulpal insult
• Relationship of Radiologic and Histologic Signs of Inflammation in Human Root-filled Teeth
• Histologic Investigation of Root Canal–treated Teeth with Apical Periodontitis
• Factors Affecting  the Long-term  Results of Endodontic Treatment  Sjogren et al JOE 1990
• Extension and Density of Root Fillings and Postoperative Apical Radiolucencies in the Veterans Affairs Dental Longitudinal Study
• Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis Associated with an Odontogenic Origin
• Persistent endodontic lesion due to complex cementodentinal tears in a maxillary central incisor—a case report
• Apparent periapical repair without operative intervention: a case report and discussion
• Consequences of and strategies to deal with residual post-treatment root canal infection
• Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Quantification of  Porphyromonas gingivalis and Tannerella forsythia in Primar yEndodontic Infections
• Wound healing of apical tissues after root canal therapy: a long-term clinical ,radiographic, and histopathologic observation study
• The transition from pulpitis to periapical periodontitis in dogs’teeth
  
• Persistent ,recurrent, and acquired infection of the root canal system post-treatment
• Consequences of and strategies to deal with residual post-treatment root canal infection
• Participation  of Bacterial Biofilms in Refractory and Chronic Periapical Periodontitis
• Dental Pulp Changes Observed in a Patient on Long-term Corticosteroids
• Reactions of Dentin and Pulp to Drugs and Restorative Materials
• Community as the unit of pathogenicity: An emerging concept as to the microbial pathogenesis of apical periodontitis
• Isolation and Characterization of Inflammatory Cells from the Human Periapical Granuloma
• Clastic cells: Mineralized tissue resorption in health and disease
• Antigenic Activity of Bacterial Endodontic Contents from Primary Root Canal Infection with Periapical Lesions against
  Macrophage in the Release of Interleukin-1b and Tumor Necrosis Factor a
• Remembrance of Dead Cells Past: Discovering That the Extracellular Matrix Is a Cell Survival Factor
• Apical periodontitis: A very prevalent problem
• The Effect of Three Different Rotary Instrumentation Systemson Substance P and Calcitonin Gene-related PeptideExpression in Human Periodontal Ligament
  
• Periapical bacterial plaque in teeth refractory to endodontic treatment - New- Special Thanks to author Dr. Fred Barnett!
• Diagnosis and management planning for root-filled teeth with persisting or new apical pathosis
  
  
  
  

Herpetic Infection and Endo

• Oral viral infections of adults
• Herpes viral–bacterial interactions in periodontal diseases
• Herpes Zoster - Zebra XIX. Part 2
• Herpes viruses in Abscesses and Cellulitis of Endodontic Origin
• Herpesviruses in Endodontic Pathoses: Association of Epstein-Barr Virus with Irreversible Pulpitis and Apical Periodontitis
  
  
  

• Odontogenic Keratocyst case report
• Maxillary Sinus Pathology of Odontogenic Origin
• Metastasis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma into the Mandible with Radiographic Findings Mimicking a Radicular Cyst: A
  Case Report
• What makes Pathogens Pathogenic - Ehrlich
• Enhancement of Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Neutrophil Oxygen Radical Production by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha
• Metastasis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma into the Mandible with Radiographic Findings Mimicking a Radicular Cyst: A Case Report
• Isolation and Characterization of Inflammatory Cells from the Human Periapical Granuloma
• Clastic cells: Mineralized tissue resorption in health and disease
  
  

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Extraradicular Infections

• Etiology, Pathogenesis And Treatment Of Apical Periodontitis
• Extraradicular Infections
• Microbiota of Periapical Lesions Refractory to Endodontic Therapy
  

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Enterococcus Faecalis

• Enterococcus faecalis: Its Role in Root Canal Treatment Failure and Current Concepts in Retreatment
  
• Susceptability of E Faecalis to a combination of drugs - 3mix   Alam et al 2005

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Bacteriology and Flare Ups

• Microbial Causes of Endodontic FlareUps NEW
• Bacterial diversity in surgical site infections: not just aerobic cocci any more
• Infatuated by Enterococci
• Microbial causes of endodontic flare-ups
• Associations of endodontic symptoms and signs with particular combinations of specific bacteria
  
  

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Pain Control

• Interappointment pain: mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment
• Evaluation of NSAIDs for treating post-endodontic pain
• Influence of residual bacteria on periapical tissue healing after chemomechanical treatment and root filling of experimentally infected monkey teeth
• Detection and Quantitation of E. faecalis by Real-time PCR (qPCR), Reverse Transcription-PCR (RT-PCR), and Cultivation During Endodontic Treatment
• Identification of Enterococcus faecalis in Root-filled Teeth With or Without Periradicular Lesions by Culture dependent and — Independent Approaches
• Pulpal and periapical immune responses to infection (PowerPoint)
• Consequences of and strategies to deal with residual post-treatment root canal infectionEffective strategies for pain control
• Pain Control - Hargreaves - ROOTS Summit V
• Interappointment Pain - Sequeira 2004
• Complications of an intra-arterial injection from an inferior alveolar nerve block
• Hypertensives and Epinephrine - Review
• An evidence-based update of the use of analgesics in dentistry
• Building effective strategies for the management of endodontic pain Endo Topics 2003
• Capsicum and local anesthetic cocktails for trigeminal pai - 2010
• Evaluation of NSAIDs for treating post-endodontic pain
• Selectively targeting pain in the trigeminal system
• Combining Paracetamol (Acetaminophen) with Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory  Drugs: A Qualitative
  Systematic Review of Analgesic Efficacy for Acute Postoperative Pain
• Consideration of steroids for endodontic pain
• Do steroids, conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and selective Cox-2 inhibitors adversely affect fracture healing?
• Effect of Pretreatment Prednisolone on Postendodontic Pain:A Double-blind Parallel-randomized Clinical Trial
• Consideration of steroids for endodontic pain
• Do steroids, conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and selective Cox-2 inhibitors adversely affect fracture healing?
• Treatment of endodontic emergencies
• Incidence of Interappointment Emergency Associated with endodontic therapy
• The efficacy of pain control following nonsurgical root canal treatment using ibuprofen or acombination of ibuprofen and acetaminophen in a
  randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
• Steroid Potency Chart

• Over the counter Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen in Combination are Superior to Each Agent Alone in Treating Postoperative Pain Dr. Richard Wynn

• Efficacy of Ibuprofen and Ibuprofen/Acetaminophenon Postoperative Pain in Symptomatic Patients with a Pulpal Diagnosis of Necrosis
  

Anticoagulants and Dentistry

• Should warfarin be discontinued before a dental extraction? A decision-tree analysis
  
  
  
  

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