Endodontic Irrigation Chemical disinfection of the root canal system

Bettina Ruth Basrani is Associate Tenured Professor and Program Co-Director for the MSc in Endodontics at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Basrani graduated from the School of Dentistry, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1989. She later gained a Diploma as a Specialist in Endodontics from the Argentinian Society of Endodontics and the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare and a PhD from Maimonides University, Faculty of Dentistry, Buenos Aires for a thesis on the effect of chlorhexidine gluconate in root canal disinfection. She joined the University of Toronto in 2004, gaining her Academic License from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario in the same year and her Endodontic Specialty License in 2006. Dr. Basrani has completed many research projects. She has published more than 20 articles in refereed journals during the past 5 years and is editor of the book Endodontic Radiology, the second edition of which was published in 2012 (Wiley-Blackwell).