Rate My Professor Shailendra S. Rana

Dr. Shailendra S. Rana serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Dentistry at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda. He earned his BDS and MDS in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Deformities from AIIMS New Delhi in 2014, complemented by advanced qualifications including MAMS, Fellow of the Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), and Member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow). With over ten years of professional experience, Dr. Rana specializes in orthodontics, focusing clinically on malocclusion, functional appliance therapy, cleft lip and palate management, and obstructive sleep apnea. He oversees the Orthodontics specialty clinic at AIIMS Bathinda, providing treatment for malaligned teeth, cleft lip and palate, obstructive sleep apnea, and mouth breathing habits on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Dr. Rana's research interests include cleft lip and palate, bone and soft tissue biomarkers in orthodontic tooth movement, finite element analysis for orthodontic forces, artificial intelligence applications in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning, 3D imaging and surgical planning, mini-screw implants and skeletal anchorage systems, and digital orthodontics involving 3D scanning, computer-aided design, and 3D printing. He holds an h-index of 9 and has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications, such as 'Evaluation of the accuracy of a simplified hybrid method versus the traditional digital method for measuring palatal volume' (2025, Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research), '2D-to-3DMaxiDeform: A computer-aided approach for 3D cephalometric landmarks detection' (2024, Computers in Biology and Medicine), 'Cervical Vertebral Maturation Assessment using various Machine Learning techniques on Lateral cephalogram: A systematic literature review' (2023, Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research), 'The challenging management of Moebius syndrome using orthodontic camouflage: A case report' (2024, Special Care in Dentistry), 'Influence of tongue volume, oral cavity volume and their ratio on upper airway: A cone beam computed tomography study' (2020, Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research), and 'A pilot study for segmentation of pharyngeal and sino-nasal airway subregions by automatic contour initialization' (2017, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery). As a member of the Research Advisory Committee, Principal Investigator for projects including artificial intelligence algorithms for cephalometric landmark detection, and contributor to workshops on study design, Dr. Rana significantly impacts orthodontic research and education.