To The Point Corporate-Sponsored Lecture| Bioceramics In Endodontics- Promising New Frontier or the Wild West

Dr. Gilberto Debelian has received his DMD degree from the University of São Paulo, Brasil in 1987. He has completed his specialization in Endodontics from the University of Pennsylvania, USA in 1991 and received the Louis I. Grossman student award in Endodontics. He has taught as a clinical instructor and associate professor at the endodontic program at University of Oslo (UIO), Norway from 1991 to 2010. He served as an adjunct visiting professor at the post-graduate program in endodontics, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 2006 to 2015. He has concluded his PhD studies at UIO in 1997, which gave him two scientific awards from the European Society of Endodontology (ESE) and from the Norwegian Dental Association both in 1997.

He is an adjunct visiting professor at the post-graduate program in endodontics at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Debelian maintains a private practice limited to endodontics and is the director of the advanced endodontic microscopy center – ENDO INN (www.endoinn.com) in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Debelian has authored 7 chapters book in Endodontics, one book in Endodontics and written more than 80 scientific and clinical papers.

Dr. Krell has been an endodontist for 42 years. He was a full time educator for 8 years at the University of Iowa and was in private practice in West Des Moines, Iowa for 29 years until he retired December 31,2017. He is still an adjunct clinical Professor in the department of Endodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. He now works part-time at Broadlawns Hospital in the Dental Department treating Medicaid patients. In 1993, he retired from the United States Army National Guard as a lieutenant colonel after 22 years of service. He is the immediate past president of the AAE, and past president of the ABE and AAEF (now the Foundation for Endodontics). He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and is a Fellow in the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists. Dr. Krell has been married for 52 years to Diane and they have two grown children, Rayda and Nathan and five grandchildren. He still has research interests in cracked teeth and vertical root fractures and has provided continuing education nationally and internationally for the past 40 years. He has played guitar for more than 50 years and has collected guitars for the past 30 years.