Conservative dentistry and endodontics — in the LDEK question base
The largest field in the base — caries and cariology, restorations and composite materials, endodontics of mature and immature teeth, retreatment.
- Questions in base
- 614
- Share of base
- 24.6%
- Roughly on the paper
- ~34
The "on the paper" figure assumes the 140 questions drawn from the base are distributed in proportion to its composition. CEM does not publish per-field quotas, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a promise.
Required reading — conservative dentistry and endodontics
The list CEM publishes for this field. Questions are written from these titles, so where a lecture and a listed textbook disagree, the textbook decides.
Titles appear exactly as CEM lists them. Most are Polish editions with no English translation — a practical constraint of sitting this exam in English, not an oversight here.
- 01 M. Barańska-Gachowska — Endodoncja wieku rozwojowego i dojrzałego, wyd. III, Czelej, 2021
- 02 B. Arabska-Przedpełska, H. Pawlicka — Współczesna endodoncja w praktyce, wyd. II, Bestom, 2012
- 03 Z. Jańczuk, U. Kaczmarek, M. Lipski — Stomatologia zachowawcza z endodoncją. Zarys kliniczny, wyd. IV, PZWL, 2014
- 04 D. Piątkowska — Kariologia współczesna. Postępowanie kliniczne, Med Tour Press, 2009
- 05 Roberson, Heymann, Swift — Sturdevant’s Art & Science of Operative Dentistry, wyd. 7, Mosby, 2018
- 06 Kidd, Fejerskov — Essentials of Dental Caries, wyd. 4, Oxford University Press, 2016
- 07 Tronstad — Clinical Endodontics: A Textbook, wyd. 3, Georg Thieme Verlag, 2009
Source: the CEM reading list . As at August 2026 — check before your session in case CEM has revised it.
How to get through this field
614 questions is a finite, countable set — at twenty a day you are through it in 31 days. The difficulty is not the volume. It is that the CEM listing gives you the questions and nothing else: no answer key, no explanation and no indication which of the books above the answer came from.
That matters more in dentistry than in medicine, because LDEK questions repeat between sessions less often. Memorising letters from the base will not carry you — understanding why the other four options are wrong is what transfers to the questions you have not seen.