Director, Dr. Synguk Kim
The Training Center was established as the first university-based Microscope Training Program in 1992 by Syngcuk Kim, D.D.S., Ph.D., Louis I. Grossman Professor and Chairman of the Department of Endodontics. Since its inception, leaders in endodontic education and clinical practitioners from the U.S.A. and around the world have been trained at the Center. Dr. Kim is a renowned microcirculatory researcher and practicing endodontist. He has been using the surgical operating microscope since 1974 in his research and since 1992 in his private endodontic practice in Rockefeller Center, New York City. He has also been an instrumental force in incorporating microendodontics and microsurgery into endodontic practice in the USA. Dr. Kim is the primary author of the "Color Atlas of Microsurgery in Endodontics" (Mosby, 2001) and chief editor of " The Microscope In Endodontics" (Dental Clinics of North America, 1997).

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Our Facilities

Our state-of-the-art Microscope Training Center has training stations equipped with Global, JedMed, Leica, Möller and Zeiss operating microscopes; TV monitors;  ultrasonic units and microsurgical instruments by Hartzell Co., Spartan/Obtura, Satelec and others.

Participants have their own stations and their own instructors for the duration of the training courses guaranteeing maximum hands-on experience. The Center provides an academic and objective environment where participants can test each of the microscopes, instruments and materials.