In 1976 when the Automated Endo Course was first taught, the standard method of doing endo was to prepare the canal with hand instruments (usually K-files) and fill it by packing it with gutta percha (usually laterally condensed).

Dr. Jacklich, at the time was doing endo for a group practice in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA and was getting overloaded with endo.

In an effort to keep up, he dug out his old Giromatic that he had bought in 1963 ( and had never really learned how to use ) and found the old PCA Pressure Filling Syringe had buried in his dental antique closet (doesn't every dentist have one? ) and set about learning to do endo faster.

To make a long story short, he soon was preparing molars in less than half an hour and filling them in less than ten.

At the time he was also the Director of Continuing Education at Loyola Dental School in Chicago.

On July 12, 1976 he rounded up twelve dental engines, borrowed 12 giromatics and took his course on tour in Wisconsin.

Close enough to drive to but far enough away that if he flopped, no one he knew would know.

Well...he didn't flop. If you call having 12 participants in 5 days not flopping.

The course was an instant success and in the last 31 years he has taught the technique and it's successor to over 22000 of his colleagues in the US.

Over the years the Giromatic gave way to sonics and sonics gave way to the STS system and the STS has now been replaced with the Fine-Cut Endo Contra-Angle.

The old PCA Syringe was followed in 1978 by the Precision Endodontic Syringe and then the new Multi_Mode Precision Endo Syringe which arrived on the scene in 1996.

The latest iteration of the original syringe idea is the Fine-Cut Endo Cartridge Syringe which has throwaway cartridges instead of a barrel. It is also available with a micrometer attachment to move the plunger in increments of thousandths of inches. That's for all the skeptics and researchers who cannot imagine how a dentist can seal and fill a canal with cement without overfilling.

The course is now presented on a regular basis in Kissimmee, FL(Disney World to you non-Floridians).

It is also available on the web and as a take-home-learn-it-on-your-own combined internet and video conference.

In addition arrangements can me made to have Dr. Jack answer questions from any group taking the course anywhere in the world using iChat on a Mac or Skype on Windows computers.