Advanced material and clinical dentistry; What is the optimum approach?

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Professor Michael Swain  BSc(UNSW) PhD(UNSW)

Topics to be covered will include:

1.  Dental ceramics their microstructures and which properties are important.

2.  Processing and “adjustment”, just how does this influence their properties.

3.  Design of ceramics and what are some critical factors.

4.  What direction for future dental prosthodontic materials?

Professor Michael Swain graduated in physics from the University of New South Wales and shortly thereafter completed a PhD on silicate ceramics under the supervision of Brian Lawn at the same University.  He has worked in various countries in the areas of contact and fracture mechanics, was a pioneer in the development of zirconia ceramics while he worked at CSIRO in Melbourne in the 1980´s, was leader of the surface mechanics group at CSIRO in Sydney in the 1990´s which developed a nano-indenter and micro-rheometer before joining Sydney University initially in the Engineering faculty before becoming head of the biomaterials group within the faculty of Dentistry.  He moved to Otago University in 2003. He is a Fellow of the American and Australian Ceramic Societies. His research interests cover advanced ceramics, teeth and their diseased conditions as well as remineralisation. In 2011 he took study leave and worked at the ZahnKlinikum University of Freiburg in Germany on aspects of the topic of cell-surface interaction.   

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