Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics


Faculty


Name Qualification Designation
Dr. Vedavathi.B MDS Professor and HOD
Dr. Dharam Hinduja MDS, DNB Professor
Dr. Varada R. Hiremath MDS Professor
Dr. Ranjini M. A. MDS Reader
Dr. Ashok H. K. MDS Reader
Dr. Ambili C. MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Pavithra Prabhakaran MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Akshata J Airsang MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Megha Kachari MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Deepti M. MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Priyanka Girish MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Siri P B MDS Senior Lecturer
Dr. Sampath Kumar R L MDS Senior Lecturer

 

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Dr Vedavathi B.
Professor & HOD.

With over 15 years of experience, Dr Vedavathi B has over 50 publications in various National and International Journals. Graduated from GDC, Bengaluru and did masters securing 3rd rank in COMED-K and 23rd rank in KEA from M.S.Ramaiah Dental College, Bengaluru. She was the best out going PG, winner of SuperBrain quiz series conducted in 2001 and 2002 in GDC by Apogee.  She has been the moderator and resource person for Rapid Recap since 2019 with more than 10 guest lectures and presentations at various Conferences. She has guided more than  28 post graduate students so far. She has also been recognised as Ph.D guide by the RGUHS University. Dr Vedavathi has also been a part of UG and PG university exams as both Internal and External Examiner.

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Dr Dharam Hinduja.
Professor

Dr Dharam Hinduja bagged the 2nd rank in the Karnataka PG entrance He has also completed the DNB degree from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. He has delivered several discourses and conducted a myriad of CDE programs on Endodontics and Esthetic Dentistry. 
He is also contributing author into textbooks and over 19 scientific publications in various National and International Journals. Sir has over 18 years of experience, with more than 53 guest lectures and presentation at various conferences. He has guided more than 6 PGs and co-guided more than 6 PGs.  Dr Dharam has also been  a part of UG and PG  RGUHS university exams as  both Internal and External Examiner.
He has also been awarded many awards including the Health Icon Award 2020 for Best Outstanding Endodontist, Esthetic Dentist and Academician of the year.
Additionally, he is a specialist with major hospitals like ASTER CMI, Columbia Asia, Wockhart, Confidental Hospitals, Apollo, etc. and LIC inspector for RGUHS.

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Dr Varada R. Hiremath.
Professor

Dr Varada R. Hiremath has over 17 years of experience and over 10 publications in various National and International Journals. He has given more than 6 guest lectures and presentations at Conferences. He has guided more than 16 PGs and has also been recognised as a Ph.D guide by the Rama University, Uttar Pradesh. Dr Varada has also been a part of UG, PG and Ph.D university exams as both Internal and External Examiner.
He has also been trained in Yoga and Naturopathy and has keen interest in Military Sciences.

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Dr Ranjini M.A.
Reader

Dr Ranjini has over 15 years of experience and over 27 publications in various National and International Journals. She has given more than 10 guest lectures and presentations at Conferences and has guided more than 8 PGs and co-guided one PG. She has been actively involved in Rapid Recap as Scientific Co-Chairperson, Resource person and Guest speaker since 2019 till date and was the Joint Organising Secretary, Guest Speaker in Basic Recap 2020.
Dr Ranjini was a part of an Artificial Intelligence Team, USA which developed a Crannium software to support dental clinicians in detecting medical pathologies and bone deformities. This software uses OPG which are routinely used as an investigating procedure. It has been provisionally patented. www.Crannium.com.
She is also a reviewer for “Journal Of Conservative Dentistry”, for the special issue of Journal “ Open Dentistry Journal” and  “Journal of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics”. She has also been a part of UG, PG and Ph.D University exams as both Internal as well as External Examiner.

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Dr Ashok H.K.
Reader

Dr Ashok has over 17 years of experience and over 8 publications in various National and International Journals. He has given more than 4 presentations at  various conferences.
Dr Ashok has  guided more than 2 PGs and Co-guided 2 PGs.  He has also been a part of UG and PG  university exams as both Internal and External Examiner.

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Dr Archana S
Reader

Dr Archana joined the team on 29/02/2024 has over 11 years of experience.

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Dr Ambili C.
Senior Lecturer

Dr Ambili bagged the 7th Rank in the NEET MDS exams. She has over 2 years of experience and over 6 publications in various National and International Journals. She has given more than 4 presentations at various conferences.  Dr Ambili has  also co-guided more 2 PGs.

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Dr Pavithra Prabakaran
Senior Lecturer

Dr Pavithra has over 2 years of experience and over 13 publications in various National and International Journals. She has also co-authored various chapters in 2 reference books. She has given more than 7 presentations at various conferences and Invited lectures.  Dr Pavithra has  also co-guided more 2 PGs. 
Dr Pavithra bagged the 4th rank in NEET MDS exam. She is also the editorial board member of Medicon Dental Journals and  reviewer of Journal of Applied Cosmetology and Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry.

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Dr Akshata J. Airsang
Senior Lecturer

Dr Akshata has over 1 year of experience and over 6 publications in various National and International Journals. She has also authored a reference book on Magnification in Endosurgery. She has given more than 3 presentations at various conferences.  Dr Akshata has also co-guided more 2 PGs. She has been involved in Rapid Recap, 2023 as the resource person.
She is the recipient of various awards such as “Certificate of Academic Excellence” by Dental Council of India and ISP Merit Award by Indian Society of Periodontology.  She was also awarded the “Young Achiever PG- 2021” at National Level by IACDE. She has also bagged various RGUHS university ranks. She is a reviewer of “Recent Advances in Inflammation and Allergy Drug Discovery”.

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Dr Megha Kachari
Senior Lecturer

Dr Megha Kachari has over 1 year of experience and publications in various National and International Journals. She has given more than 4 presentations at various conferences and Invited lectures.  Dr Megha has also co-guided more than 2 PGs. 
Dr Megha has also bagged RGUHS University rank  in MDS.

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Dr Deepthi M
Senior Lecturer

Dr Deepthi M. has bagged the 25th Rank in NEET MDS exams and has over 1 year of experience and over 5 publications in various National and International Journals. She has given more than 3 presentations at various conferences and Invited lectures.  Dr Deepthi has also co-guided more than 2 PGs. 
Dr Deepthi has also bagged RGUHS University ranks  during her BDS course.

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Dr Priyanka Girish
Senior Lecturer

Dr Priyanka Girish has over 1 year of experience and over 2 publications in various National and International Journals. She has given more than 5 presentations at various conferences and Invited lectures.  Dr Priyanka has also co-guided more than 2 PGs. 

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Dr Siri PB
Senior Lecturer

Dr Siri PB joined the team on 29/02/2024, a Gold Medallist from RGUHS(2023): State Topper in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics and has 7 publications to her credit in various National and International Journals. She completed her UG in 2018. She has won the Pierre Fauchard International Senior Student Award in 2018 held at Maulana Azad Dental College, Delhi and IDA Student Profile of the Year in 2019, Best Outgoing Under Graduate Student - Gold Medal from AJIDS in the year 2018, 6th rank for RGUHS in Oral Medicine and Radiology, Best Poster in National Aesthetic Symposium in 2022 held at GDCRI, Bengaluru and Best Paper Award in 2015, 2017, 2018 for her various papers. She is also a certified iTOP (Individually Trained Oral Prophylaxis) instructor for Curaden, India  . 

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Dr Sampath Kumar R L
Senior Lecturer

Dr Sampath Kumar RL joined the team on 29/02/2024. He completed his UG in 2017 and PG in 2023. He has given presentations at various conferences.  . 

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