Ashwini Tumkur Shivakumar currently works at the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, JSS Dental College and Hospital. Ashwini does research in Dentistry and Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics. Their most recent publication is 'Comparison and evaluation of two reciprocating root canal instruments on removal of smear layer by using two irrigants at apical one‑third of the root canal‑an ex vivo‑scanning electron microscopic study'.