Course Outline

As the opening seminar of Zumax 2021-2022CE" , our speaker is well-known Dr.Syngcuk Kim from University of Pennsylvania. He is well recognized as the founder and advocate of modern Microsurgery. In the one hour journey, Dr.Kim will show, you how to accomplish MicrosurgeryStep by step", you will locate main contents as bellowing:

 Analysis of the reasons for the failure of root apex 3mm endodontic treatment

 The impact of apical lesion size on clinical treatment

 The importance of CBCT

 Traditional apical surgery VS microsurgery

 New advances in microsurgery

 The main steps of microsurgery

Introduction to lecturer

Dr. Kim is well known and respected for his research in dental pulp physiology and microcirculation running the Pulp Biology Laboratory when he was a faculty member at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. When he joined the Dental School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 as chairman of the Department of Endodontics, Dr. Kim not only brought the department into the “New Age “ using the Microscope in endodontics, but also established the Microscope Training Center at the School. Since its inception, over 1000 leaders in endodontic education and clinical practitioners from the USA, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia have been trained at the Center. It is the longest running University based continuation program in the world. He also changed old fashioned endodontic surgery to modern microsurgery by developing a series of micro-instruments for the field and writing a textbook entitled,“Color Atlas of Microsurgery in Endodontics” published in 2000 by the Saunders Co.

Extensive speaking engagements take Dr. Kim to universities, conferences, study clubs, and professional associations in the US and abroad. Dr. Kim has published over seventy articles in peer review journals. He has also served as Guest Editor in the Dental Clinics of North America series, published in July 1997 and 2004 and he is co-author of a text book in endodontics entitled “Endodontology, a Color Atlas of Dental Medicine”, Thieme Co., Germany 2000. This text book has been translated to 14 languages. His current research interest is evaluation of various dental materials using stem-cell lines.