I meetings _ ESE Edinburgh ESE holds another record meeting in Scotland Author_Daniel Zimmermann, Germany _The auditorium filled with the sound of Scottish bagpipes, but not playing the familiar tunes of folk classics such as Amazing Grace or Auld Lang Syne; it was the famous guitar intro from AC/DC’s 1990 track Thunderstruck as re-interpreted by the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. The performance by the Scottish ensemble, who won the BBC’s When Will I Be Famous television show in 2007 and currently conquer stages in Scotland and worldwide with their energetic bagpipe rock, clearly was one of the highlights of this year’s European Society of Endodontology (ESE) congress in Edinburgh. The 14th biennial ESE meeting, which was the second held in the UK (the first was the London congress in 1993), saw a record attendance of over 1,400 endodontic specialists from 50 countries. They had been invited to join a comprehensive lecture programme discussing key issues like the rights and wrongs of different instrumentation, and perennials like the realities of microbial biofilms and the challenges of 3-D imaging. New this year was a significant offering Edinburgh Photo: DuirinishLight Meeting Photos: Daniel Zimmermann 46 I roots 4_ 2009