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This issue of Dental Clinics of North America focuses on Dental Materials, and is edited by Drs. Jack Ferracane, Luiz E. Bertassoni, and Carmem S. Pfeifer. Articles will include: Tooth: Its structure and properties; Dental light curing; Bioactive dental materials having remineralizing or antimicrobial characteristics; Materials for regenerating dental pulp and soft tissues; Dental adhesives; Polymer-based direct filling materials; Dental impression materials and techniques; Dental ceramics for restoration and metal-veneering; Dental cements for luting and bonding restorations; Bone augmentation materials; Dental implants, and more!
List of contents
Dental Clinics of North America
Biomaterials for Oral Health
Preface: Biomaterials for Oral Health
The Tooth: Its Structure and Properties
Bioactive Dental Composites and Bonding Agents Having Remineralizing and Antibacterial Characteristics
Advanced Scaffolds for Dental Pulp and Periodontal Regeneration
An Overview of Dental Adhesive Systems and the Dynamic Tooth-Adhesive Interface
Polymer-based Direct Filling Materials
Light Curing in Dentistry
Dental Impression Materials and Techniques
Dental Ceramics for Restoration and Metal Veneering
Dental Cements for Luting and Bonding Restorations: Self-Adhesive Resin Cements
Biomaterials for Craniofacial Bone Regeneration
Dental Implants
About the author
Dr. Ferracane is a founding fellow and past-President of the Academy of Dental Materials. He is a past-President of the American Association for Dental Research. He is the recipient of the Wilmer Souder Award from the Dental Materials Group of the IADR, the Founders Award from the Academy of Dental Materials, and the Hollenback Award from the Academy of Operative Dentistry. He is an honorary member of the American College of Dentists and the Oregon Dental Association. He has authored or co-authored several textbooks on dental materials and operative dentistry and has published extensively on biomaterials.Dr. Pfeifer teaches Dental Materials and serves as an instructor in several Restorative Dentistry pre-clinical disciplines. She has published close to 60 research articles in the field of Dental Materials Sciences and serves as the reviewer for several journals in dentistry, polymer science and biomaterials, as well as for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at NIH. Her research focuses on the development of innovative polymeric materials for restorative dentistry, as well as on the development of analytical tools to characterize polymer properties evolution in real-time.
