Rade Paravina
{{Short description|Serbian-American doctor and scientist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|5|14}}
| birth_place = Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia (today Serbia)
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| education = University of Niš School of Medicine, integrated academic studies – Dentistry
| known_for = Color and appearance research in esthetic dentistry
| profession = Professor
| work_institutions = School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Rade D. Paravina ({{lang-sr-cyr|Раде Д. Паравина}}, {{IPA|sr|râːde paravina}}; born May 14, 1962) is a Serbian-American professor at School of Dentistry (UTSD), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). He serves as the director of the Houston Center for Biomaterials & Biomimetics and holds the Ralph C. Cooley DDS, Distinguished Professorship in Biomaterials.[https://dentistry.uth.edu/directory/profile.htm?id=186fa526-f2a5-4b5e-a9b0-1be0bfea8257 About Rade Paravina on the UTHealth School of Dentistry website], UTHealth School of Dentistry. Retrieved: February 15, 2021.[https://www.uth.edu/giving/ways-to-give/endowments/distinguished-professorship Distinguished Professorship, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston], UTHealth. Retrieved: February 15, 2021.[https://www.dentalxp.com/xperts/rparavina About Rade Paravina on the DentalXP website], DentalXP. Retrieved: February 15, 2021.
Career
Paravina graduated from the University of Niš School of Medicine, where he subsequently completed a three-year residency in prosthodontics and earned his master's and doctoral degree, and joined the UTSD in 2000. He designed and developed several dental products and tests and together with VITA Zahnfabrik designed two shade guides, Linearguide 3D Master and Bleachedguide 3D Master.{{cn|date=May 2022}} He has developed Dental Color Matcher, an online evaluating training program for esthetic dentistry, and the scientific protocol for evaluating the "chameleon effect" of dental materials.[http://www.scadent.org/news/free-color-training "Free Color Education and Training: Color Matching Curriculum & Dental Color Matcher"], Society for Color and Appearance in Dentistry. Retrieved: February 17, 2021.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17088240 Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry Announcement], Wiley Online Library. Retrieved: August 10, 2021. and editorial board member of the Journal of Dentistry, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry,[https://www.thejpd.org/content/edboard Editorial Board of The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry], Website of The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. Retrieved: February 17, 2021. International Journal of Prosthodontics, and the American Journal of Dentistry.
He is the founder and past president of the Society for Color and Appearance in Dentistry (SCAD), director in the Executive Council of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (AAED), and fellow of SCAD, AAED, and the American Association for Dental Research (AADR).
He is included in the Encyclopedia of the National Diaspora, edited by chronicler Ivan Kalauzović Ivanus.[https://www.impressions.rs/enciklopedija-nacionalne-dijaspore/ Encyclopedia of the National Diaspora], Impressions Publishing. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
Selected publications
- Paravina, R. and Powers, J. Esthetic Color Training in Dentistry (2004)
- Chu, S., Devigus, A., Paravina, R., and Mieleszko, A. Fundamentals of Color: Shade Matching and Communication in Esthetic Dentistry (2004) – co-editor
- Chu, S., Sailer, I., Paravina, R., and Mieleszko, A. Color in Dentistry – A Clinical Guide to Predictable Esthetics (2017) – co-editor
- Paravina, R. Understanding Color (chapter in Ronald E. Goldstein's "Esthetics in Dentistry", pp. 270–294) (2018){{cite book | chapter-url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119272946.ch10 | doi=10.1002/9781119272946.ch10 | chapter=Understanding Color | title=Ronald E. Goldstein's Esthetics in Dentistry | date=2018 | last1=Paravina | first1=Rade D. | pages=270–294 | isbn=978-1-119-27283-0 }}
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Literature
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Category:21st-century American dentists