Faculty Name: Dr. Sukanya.R Degree: MDS Designation: Senior Lecturer

Faculty name: Dr. Sukanya.R

Degree: MDS

Designation: Senior Lecturer

Area of research expertise: Enamel Surface changes with orthodontic treatment.

Projects Conducted:

 An invitro and Invivo evaluation of the effect of moisture contamination on the shear bond strength of brackets bonded with a moisture tolerant light cure system – A comparative study

 Comparative evaluation between the colour changes in the enamel of orthodontic patients treated with ceramic and stainless-steel brackets.

 Soft tissue changes with functional appliances.

 Ongoing summer research project on evaluation of speech with functional appliances.

 Ongoing study regarding a perspective study on type of orthodontic treatment.

Conferences, seminars and workshops attended:

1. 1st National Workshop on Lingual – Clear Aligner Orthodontics on 12-14 November 2010 Balaji Dental and Craniofacial Hospital, Chennai

2. First Zonal PG Convention, Chennai, Jun 2011.

3. 46th Indian Orthodontic Conference, Khajuraho, 22- 25 Sept 2011.

4. Lecture by Dr. Joseph Varghese on Simplified Biomechanics conducted by Madras Orthodontic Study Group in Chennai, 7 Aug 2011.

5. Faculty Developmental Program at SRU, Chennai. 13-14 Feb 2012.

6. Biometrics for TMD – Lecture by Dr. Maminder Singh Sethi at SRU on 18th Oct 2012.

7. Mid Year convention 2013, Istanbul (July 2013) – Poster presentation on“Moisture contamination and moisture tolerant light cure systems - a 12 month clinical assessment of bond failures”.

8. 1st lingual convention at Delhi (Sep 2013) – table clinic on “ligations”.

9. 48th IOS conference at Ahmedabad (November 2013).

10. TFW project 16 SRU cleft lip & cleft palate camp- 12 Attended from Oct 2013 to till date. 11. Workshop on Basic Epidemiology, Statistics, SPSS and critical appraisal at SRU from 30th July to 2nd Aug 2014.

12. CDE on Miniscrews in Orthodontics – Lecture and Live Demonstration at SRU on 13th March 2014.

13. Lecture titled” Treatment Planning and Biomechanics- Current Perspectives”-By Dr. Anil. A on 24th Feb 2015, Sri Ramachandra University.

14. “K Line Clear Alligners”- 18th April 2015 at Meenakshi Ammal Dental College & hospitals, Chennai.

15. CDE program titled “ORTHOCON” on CBCT on 24th June 2015- TamilNadu Government Dental College, Chennai.

16. JIOS symposium on September 7th 2015, Sri Ramachandra University.

17. Attended the CDE Programme held on October 5, 2015 at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai to commemorate THE Golden jubilee celebration of Indian orthodontic society.

18. Participated in the “Bridging the gap—contemporary cleft orthodontics” organized by the department of orthodontics& dentofacial orthopedics, meenakshi ammal dental college& hospital, Chennai held on October 16th 2015.

19. Participated as a delegate in CME on “IEC Requisites & Review of proposals” by Institutional Ethics Committee, Sri Ramachandra University on 12th January 2016.

20. Attended Ramachandra Orthodontic Accelerated Review – ROAR 2016 on 29th& 30th& chaired a session.

21. ttended a half day programme on “Sensitizing SRU faculty about the role of Faculty in student counseling” organized by dept of clinical Psychology on 16th March 2016 at Sri Ramachandra University.

22. Participated in the 6th ORTHOCON -2016 “ TMD to TMJ”on 27th July, conducted by dept of orthodontics & dentofacial orthopaedics at Tamil Nadu Government Dental college & Hospital, Chennai

23. Attended 10th World Cleft Lip, Palate &Craniofacial congress International cleft lip & palate foundation & presented a poster on “Morphometrics” from 26-28 October 2016.

24. Attended Ramachandra Orthodontic Accelerated Review – ROAR 2017 on 5th -7th January& chaired a session.

25. Charing the scientific session of SHOWCASE 2017 3rd International Conference on case reports and case series held on 10th&11th Feb 2017 at Saveetha Dental College, Chennai. 26. Attended the CDE Lectures on “En route to Perfection”held on 2nd November 2018 at SRM Dental college,Chennai.

27. Attended seminar on EDGEWISE-PAST TO PRESENT held from 17th-18th November 2018 at Hyatt Regency,Chennai.

28. Attended Ramachandra Orthodontic Accelerated Review – ROAR 2019 on 7th -9th January.

29. Attended “ORTHOMASTERCLASS by DR.SEAN HOLIDAY” Workshop on 15th March 2019,held in association with THE ALIGNER COMPANY at Chennai.

Membership in Committees

 Member of CDE committee ,SRIHER

 Member of PPEP – 3 ( Professional and Personal Enhancement Program for IIIrd year BDS

List of publications

 Pandian A, Ranganathan S, Padmanabhan S. Enamel color changes following orthodontic treatment. Indian Journal of Dental Research. 2017 May 1;28(3):330.

 Durga K, Sukanya R, Sridevi Padmanabhan. Does bone mineral density influence the primary stability of orthodontic microimplants? - A systematic Review. International Journal of Orthodontics 2017, Winter Issue.