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Department of Conservative Dentistry focuses on functional and esthetic oral rehabilitation. The primary goal is to preserve and conserve the natural teeth, avoiding tooth extraction and minimizing the loss of healthy tooth structure during treatment of decayed or damaged teeth.
Its clinical practice and research interests are as follows:
Operative dentistry : restoration of the damaged or decayed teeth and treatment of the sensitive teeth.
Esthetic dentistry : corrective treatment for improve the appearance of a person teeth and natural harmony with face
Tooth bleaching : whitening the discolored teeth
Endodontics : (root canal treatment): treatment of the teeth with inflamed or necrotic pulp
Dental traumatology : restoration of the injured teeth to its original state functionally and esthetically
Endodontic microsurgery (apical surgery): removal the inflamed tissue of the teeth surgically in cases of root canal treatment failure or recurrence of symptoms.
Tooth transplantation : transplantation of a tooth, such as a wisdom tooth, to another location with missing tooth in the same mouth.