The Rector of Universitas Indonesia, Prof. Dr. Ir. Muhammad Anis, M.Met led the inauguration ceremony of two permanent professors of Universitas Indonesia who was Prof. Dr. dr. Parlindungan Siregar SpPD.KGH as the Permanent Professor on Internal Medicine of Faculty of Medicine of Universitas Indonesia (FKUI), and Prof. Dr. drg. Endang Suprastiwi, Sp KG(K) as the Permanent Professor on Tooth Conservation of Faculty of Dentistry of Universitas Indonesia (FKG UI). The inauguration was held at Balai Sidang UI, Depok.
Prof. Dr. dr. Parlindungan delivered a inauguration speech about “The role of drinking water for health, is it always useful?”. As a Professor of Internal Medicine who is also a kidney-hypertension consultant, he thought that he was responsible to educate people on the understanding of liquid, electrolyte, and acid-base. In his opinion, water is indeed really important for humans survival, yet in the usage of it, there are things that needs to be considered. Water is advised to be consume not more than the normal excretion capability of normal kidney which is 400 – 600 ml per hour. The age factor and the function size of kidney also contribute on the amount of water that can be consume.
On the other side, Prof. drg. Endang delivered her inauguration speech titled “Regeneration of endodontics into the new paradigm of tooth conservation care”. As the professor of Tooth Conservation, Prof. drg. Endang always emphasizes the research related on the attempt and act to preserve and conserve the tooth on mouth cavity as long as possible by the act of precaution and countermeasure of the disease. One of the research was endodontics regeneration which was the new method to treat the infected pulp which is aimed to regenerate the pulp. The principle of endodontics regeneration applied the tissue engineering technology by the three dimensional formation of functional tissue by using the stem cells which is combined with scaffold and growth factors. (Humas UI/Ay)
