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Dr Nikita B Ruparel
Event speaker
Is Pulp Conservation and Regeneration Relevant to Endodontics?
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The dental pulp is a unique vital tissue with an outstanding capacity to detect and defend from injurious insults. Conventional endodontic care has aimed to extirpate the pulp to promote healing. However, the advancements in pulp biology has greatly increased our knowledge of pulp conservation and regeneration. This has directly translated to clinical care with greater predictability of outcomes for procedures such as vital pulp therapy and regenerative endodontics therapy. This lecture will therefore discuss basic science, clinical translational approaches and future directions for pulp preservation in endodontics.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To understand the functional capacity of pulp cells in healing of endodontic disease
Basic science research for current clinical therapeutics
Challenges to implementing pulp biology in endodontics
Biography
Dr. Ruparel is Board certified Endodontist who practices in San Antonio at UT Faculty Endodontics. She is the Director of the Advanced Program in Endodontics at UT San Antonio. She received her certificate in Endodontics in 2013 after receiving her doctoral (PhD) and DDS at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Her practice in Endodontics includes all aspects of modern endodontics. She also lectures at national and international meetings on pain biology and management and regenerative endodontics. She has also been awarded the Women in Science award from International Association of Dental Research and American Association of Endodontics Educator Fellowship for committing her career to academics. Nikita Ruparel is committed to a long-term career as a clinician-scientist.