Dec 22, 2023
Dr. Najia Usman graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 1995 with her DDS. After completing a one-year general practice residency at the Cleveland Clinic she furthered her interest in endodontics by completing a two-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.
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 resorptive
lesions. She has organized and lectured in dental trauma
symposiums. She has lectured and clinically taught dental students,
endodontic and pediatric residents. 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. Her study The Influence of Instrument Size on
Debridement was published in the Journal of Endodontics (Feb 2004,
vol 30, 110-112) has been cited over 260 times. She is the proud
mother of 4 children ages 18 to 28 and has been married to and
shares a private multi specialty practice with Dr. Faisal Quereshy
OMFS for 29 years. They reside in Cleveland, Ohio.