Charis Beltes

Surgical endodontics, often referred to as endodontic microsurgery, serves as a critical last resort for saving natural teeth when conventional root canal treatments have failed. In those cases, which have the indication for surgery, it is currently possible to have a notably increased percentage of success with the treatment of surgical cases, compared with what could be attained up until a few years ago, and this is thanks to technological progress, that has happened in the field of endodontic surgery. Data were collected from several randomized clinical cases performed by a single operator. The pre-op, peri-op and post-operative factors were evaluated, in order to access and predict the overall success of the procedures. Endodontic surgery can today be performed with an accuracy and predictability of results that were not possible to reach 20 years ago. With the use of state-of-the-art instruments, new and improved materials and a surgical operating microscope, the gap has narrowed between biological concepts and the ability to achieve consistently successful clinical results.

Beltes Charis DDS, MSc., MClinDent, PhD.

He graduated in 2003 from the School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). In the period 2003 - 2006 he carried out postgraduate studies at the Department of Endodontics, AUTh. and then, in 2006 - 2008, specialised in Oral Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2016 he was awarded the PhD. Diploma from AUTh. and from 2017, he was appointed as an academic fellow in the postgraduate program, at the Department of Endodontics, AUTh.

To date he has published more than 20 papers in peer reviewed international and Greek journals and has presented 30 lectures as a speaker and 50 presentations in Greek and international conferences. Participates as an instructor in practical workshops and is a reviewer in international journals. He is a certified trainer of Dentsply Sirona. He maintains a private clinic in Thessaloniki, Greece limited in non-surgical, surgical Endodontics & other dentoalveolar surgery.