Najia Usman, D.D.S.

Vice President
Visage Endodontics
Medina, Ohio

Najia Usman graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 1995 with her D.D.S. After completing a 1 year general practice residency at the Cleveland Clinic she furthered her interest in endodontics by completing a 2 year endodontic residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon in 2002. She was awarded her Diplomate Status by the American Board of Endodontics in 2009 and recertified in 2019.

Dr. Usman has been in Private Practice since 2002. Though she practices full scope endodontics, she has cultivated an interest in the endodontic management in trauma, pediatrics and management of resorptive lesions. She has organized and lectured in dental trauma symposiums. She has lectured and clinically taught, dental students, endodontic and pediatric residents at Case Western School of Dental Medicine and Rainbow Babies University Hospital as a Clinical Assistant Professor. She has lectured nationally and locally to study clubs on topics such as “Endo-Perio”, “Atypical Facial Pain”, “Regenerative Endodontics” and “Pulpal injuries after Oro-Facial Trauma”. She has lectured internationally on the topic of Regenerative Endodontics In Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Agha Khan University, in Karachi Pakistan and virtually at the Saudi International Dental Conference 2021. Her trauma lecture was also apart of the virtual CE offerings of the Ohio Dental Association Annual Session 2021. Her study “The influence of instrument size on debridement” was published in the Journal of Endodontics (Feb 2004, vol 30, 110-112). She is very active in organized dentistry and her specialty organization at the local, state and national level servicing on the AAE Public and Professional Relations Committee and the ADA Council on Dental Education and Licensure. Presently she is president for the Ohio Association of Endodontists.

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Presentation(s):

• PM-3 - Hiring Firing and Keeping Amazing Team Members

  Wednesday, May 3, 2023
  2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CT

• I-7 - CANCELLED- ORAL CANCER: From Clinic to the Operating Room - What's Next for My Patient?

  Friday, May 5, 2023
  1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT