Table 1. Four patents in WIPO and USPTO from Iranian endodontists.

Inventor	Title	Date of application	Date of publication	Date of approval	Sovereign state	Number
Asgary S and Ghassemian Pour Bavandi M	Endodontic filling material	February 22, 2007	28 August 2008	17 June 2012	WIPO	WO/2008/102214
Asgary S	Endodontic filling material	July 16, 2007	August 28, 2008	May 17, 2011	United States	7,942,961 (Patent)
Asgary S	Medical and dental biomaterial and method of use for the same	April 1, 2011	July 28, 2011	January 31, 2012	United States	8,105,086 (Patent)
Saghiri MA et al.	Dental cement composition	August 17, 2011	January 19, 2012	-	United States	20120012030