Undergraduate education in endodontology Steps towards understanding how to make everyone feel more comfortable with root canal treatment

The research that forms the core of this thesis looked at how well root canal treatments on patients were performed following clinical training versus simulated clinical training (chapter 2), at aspects of undergraduate education in Endodontology that could influence the building of self-efficacy (chapters 3 and 4) and at how self-efficacy changes following graduation (chapter 5). In addition to that, interappointment emergencies, which are inconvenient, were studied (chapter 6).
Our work shows that for building up self-efficacy in Endodontics, clinical experience in performing root canal treatment is vital. Students benefit most from gradual exposure and from supervision by endodontists during their undergraduate training. However, skill training up to the level of being competent should be done in simulation.