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PrologueWhen I was an undergraduate dental student, the endodontists who were my clinical supervisors said to me that I was good at Endodontics. I just did what I was taught to do, and despite the compliments of my supervisors, performing root canal treatment still felt to me like stirring in a black hole. It was within the first year after graduation, when I practised general dentistry in a practice with a population that already had – but also needed additional – extensive restorative treatment, that I started to like Endodontology. Endodontic cases challenged me the most; more than the other fields of Dentistry, Endodontics obliged me to reason and to apply problem-solving skills. Annemarie Baaij.indd 9 28-06-2023 12:26