Chennai Dental Research Foundation
CDRF is ‘DSIR’ recognised organization, one of the 9 international centres recognised for randomised clinical trial comparing Zygomatic Implant Vs Conventional implants in Augmented maxilla, study coordinated by Cochrane Oral Health Group.


- A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Phase IIB Trial of Curcumin in Oral Leukoplakia – A multi centre study, Cancer Prev Res August 1 2016 (9) (8) 683-691; DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-15-0390
- Rajan G, Natarajarathinam G, Kumar S, Parthasarathy H. Full mouth rehabilitation with zygomatic implants in patients with generalized aggressive periodontitis: 2 year follow-up of two cases. J Indian Soc Periodontol. Vol 18, (1), pp 107-101, 2014.
- Vidya L, Ranganathan K, Praveen B, Gunaseelan R, Shanmugasundaram S. Cone-beam computed tomography in the management of dentigerous cyst of the jaws. A report of two cases. Indian J Radiol Imaging. Vol 23, (4), pp 342-6, Dec 2013
- Gowri Natarajarathinam, Vidya LakshmiNarayanan, Jayanthi Sampath, Ranganathan Kannan, Gunaseelan Rajan. Knowledge, attitude and practice of oral hygiene measures among school children in Chennai – Tamil Nadu Journal of Indian Dental Association. Vol 7, (3), pp 12-14, Mar 2013.
- Sudhakar Benjamin, Nivedhitha M S, Ganesh Kumar A, Jayanthi S and S Nandagopal. Comparative Evaluation of Cytotoxicity of Endodontic Irrigants – Chlorhexidine, Sodium hypochlorite and Neem extract. Journal of Pharmacy Research, 5(3): 1273–1275, 2012.
- Nandagopal S, Dhanalakshmi D P, Ganesh Kumar A and Sujitha. Phytochemical and Antibacterial studies of Fenugreek Trigonella foenum-graecum L. – A Multipurpose Medicinal Plant. Journal of Pharmacy Research, 5(1): 413–415, 2012.
- Rajasekar V, Saravanan R, Selvakumar G and A Ganesh Kumar. Comparison Study between In-House IgM Dot-ELISA and the Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) for the Diagnosis of Human Leptospirosis. International Journal of Medicobiological Research. International Research Journal of Pharmacy. 3(4): 314-317, 2012.
- Karumaran CS, Gunaseelan R, and J KrithikaDatta. Microscopic – aided endodontic treatment of maxillary first premolars with three roots: A case series. Indian Journal of Dental Research. 22(5): 706–708, 2011.
- Ranganathan K and R Kavitha. Proliferation and apoptosis markers in oral submucos fibrosis. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, 15 (2), 2011.
- Ganesh Kumar A, Selvakumar G and T. Thirunalasundari. Marine Cyanobacteria – A potent source for therapeutics. Journal of Basic and Applied Biology, 5: 320 – 328, 2011.
- Nandagopal S, Dhanalakshmi D P and A Ganesh Kumar. Exogenous Hormone Influence on Development of Root Culture in Withania somnifera L. (Ashwagandha)-A Potent Medicinal Plant. Advanced Biotech, 11 (6): 15-19, 2011.
- Ganesh Kumar A, Selvakumar G and T Thirunalasundari. Ocean – A potential source of new therapeutics. Biomedicine, 2011 (Accepted – In Press).
- Radhika Sashikumar and K Ranganathan. Salivary glucose levels and Oral candidal carriage in type II diabetes, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology, 109 (5), 2010.
- Suresh PK, Ranganathan K, Balasundaram S and R Gunaseelan. Gene Expression Signatures – ex Vivo/ in Vivo Approaches for Signature Development and Validation. Int J Human Genet 7(1), pp 99-105, 2007.
- Gunaseelan R, Sankaralingam S, Ramesh S and Datta. Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour regarding Habits in rural part of Tamilnadu or Habits in the rural part of Tamilnadu – A Qualitative Study. Indian J Dent Res, 18(1), pp 11-14, 2007.
- Rajan G, Ramesh S and Sankaralingam S. Areca nut use rural Tamil Nadu: a growing threat. Indian J Med Sci, 61(6), pp 332-337, 2007.
- Ranganathan K, Premdeepa Narasimhan, Kaazhiyur Mudimbaimannar Vidya, Gunaseelan R, Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy, Suniti Solomon and Lakshman P Samaranayake. Oral Candida Species in Healthy and HIV – Infected Subjects in Chennai, South India. Tropical Medicine and Health 36 (2), pp 101-106, 2007.
- Gunaseelan R, Sankaralingam Shanthi, Ramesh Sowmya, Manjula Datta. Areca nut use among rural residents of Sriperambudur Taluk: A qualitative study, 18 (1), pp 11-14, 2007.
- Gunaseelan R, Sankaralingam S, Duraiswamy A, Ramesh S, and G Subalakshmi. A Community – based study on HIV / AIDS Knowledge Among Urban Slum Adolescents. Journal of the Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, (7), pp 63 –69, 2006.
- Gunaseelan R., Ramesh S., Sankaralingam S., Narasimhan P., Duraiswamy A., and G Subbulakshmi. Quantitative assessment for Unstimulated Salivary Flow Rte by Diabetic Status in a Fisherman Community of Chennai. Journal of the Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry. (7), pp 53–58, 2006.
- Saraswathi TR, Ranganathan K, Shanmugam S, Sowmya R, Narasimhan PD and R Gunaseelan. Prevalence of Oral Lesions in Relation to Habits: Cross-sectional Study in South India. Indian J Dent Res, 17 (3), pp 121-125, 2006.
- Ranganthan K, M Umadevi, TR Saraswathi, N Kumarasawamy and N Johnson. Oral lesions and conditions associated with Human Immunodeficiency virus infection in 1000 South Indian patients. Ann Acad Med Singapore, (suppl): 37-42, 2004.
Chennai Dental Research Foundation
No. 56, Dr. R.K Salai, 6th Floor, Mylapore, Chennai – 600 004. Tamil Nadu, India.
Telephone : +91 96000 70003. E-mail : dental.cdrf@gmail.com