Advanced Dental And Oral Health

Shigemi Ishikawa Nagai is an associate professor of oral medicine, infection and immunity at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Throughout her career, Dr. Nagai has been dedicated to teaching prosthodontics and mentoring students’ research. Nagai has received numerous awards recognizing her teaching and research. HSDM. She has more than 90 peer-reviewed publications (https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/1111). Currently, she holds the Nagai-Kim-Chen Lab, which is comprised of clinician-scientists focused on translational research that combines clinical and developmental research with basic science

Younes Alipanah has completed his general dentistry at the age of 23 years from Shiraz University and Master of science in endodontics from Shahid Beheshti Dental School, Tehran, Iran at the age of 30. Recently, Younes has received the second MSc in Endodontic from King’s College in London. He is the clinical instructor at Copenhagen dental school, and work as endodontist and referral dentist in two Private clinics.

Aamna Rahat is a pediatric dental surgeon, working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dentistry at SRMS Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, India. She has completed her “Master of Dental Surgery” in the subject of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry from Bareilly International University. She is University Gold Medalist for M.D.S and done her B.D.S from Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, India. She has Received Medal for her B.D.S Program too. She has several paper publications and national & International E-book publications.

Robert B. Kerstein received his D.M.D. degree in 1983, and his Prosthodontic certificate in 1985, both from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. From 1985 - 1998, he maintained an active appointment at Tufts as a clinical professor teaching Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics. In 1984, Dr. Kerstein began studying the original T Scan I technology, and has since that time has also studied T-Scan II, T-Scan III, T-Scan VII, T-Scan 8, T-Scan 9, and now the present-day version, the T-Scan 10 technology. Dr. Kerstein has conducted original research regarding the role that occlusion and lengthy disclusion time plays in the etiology of Chronic Occlusal-Muscle Dysfunction.

Buse Sarpkaya is a 3rd year student of Dentistry at Istanbul Kent University and is the delegate of the Turkish Dental Association student branch for the 2024-2026 term. At the same time, she writes for the Toothfriendly Magazine, which is published by the Toothfriendly Association, which is the branch of Toothfriendly International in Turkey, and serves as a substitute supervisory board member of the association.

Evgenii Sadyrin, M.S., Junior Researcher of the Laboratory for Mechanics of Biomaterials, Don State Technical University, is the author of 40 publications in Scopus database (the publication H-index is 8). The main research interests of  Sadyrin include biomechanics of tooth tissues, nanoindentation, microtomography, atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, biocompatible coatings, mathematical modelling. Sadyrin is currently involved in research projects on biomechanics of the tissues of oral cavity and eyeball and optimized biocompatible materials for implantation.

Angelina Vlahova, DMD, Ph.D. works in the department of Prosthetic Dentistry, faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University - Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She was an Assistant Professor in the department of Prosthetic Dentistry from 2007 and finished her Prosthodontics specialization in 2010. She wrote one monograph in English and another one in Bulgarian, three student text books – one in bulgarian and two in English, morethan 100 full text publications and has more than 90 oral and poster presentations, the oretical and practical educational courses. She has lecture course “CAD/CAM Technologies in Dentistry” for 5th course students in English and in Bulgarian. She owns has her own privatedental practice in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Hussain Ali Albannai is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Qatif Central Hospital in Saudi Arabia. He holds Saudi board certification in OMFS and currently persuing a fellowship in Implant Dentistry at the American Academy of Dental Implantology, Abudhabi. As a surgeon, he has 3 years of public practice and 2 years of private practice as an OMF surgeon.

Alisa Vladimirovna Blinova, PhD, a post-graduate student of Tver State Medical University (Russia). She graduated from Tver State Medical University in 2020 with a degree in Dentistry. She has over 40 publications and 5 patents that have been cited over 30 times (the publication H-index is 3). Her research interests include modern conceptions of endodontic treatment, the control of oral biofilms and using nanotechnologies in dentistry. The method of passive nano-impregnation developed by her has a high therapeutic and commercial potential

Savitha Siddappa received her DMD degree from Henry M Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston MA followed by an AEGD from Lutheran Medical Center, New York, MS in Orofacial Pain and Oral medicine from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Currently practicing as a orofacial pain specialist in greater Los Angeles area. In the last 2 decades of being in dental field, she has invested a lot of time into learning the latest advances in various aspects of managing different dental diseases. She enjoys learning new technologies in the field of dentistry and have implemented it in her practice throughout her career. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, travelling and spend time with her family.
She is a Diplomate, American Board of Orofacial Pain Fellow; American Board of Orofacial Pain Fellow; American Academy of Oral medicine; Member of mentorship committee of AAOP