View Full Version : hottest research area in dentistry right now?


Smooth Operater
03-29-2006, 11:07 AM
I am just curious, what's the hottest research are in dentistry right now for those of you are involving with your dental school? Thanks! :)

DrJeff
03-29-2006, 11:51 AM
I am just curious, what's the hottest research are in dentistry right now for those of you are involving with your dental school? Thanks! :)

In no particluar order:

Implants
Esthetic Materials
Links between dental health and general systemic health
Amalgam and related mercury issues

nothen2do
03-29-2006, 03:17 PM
Ozone

mzalendo
03-29-2006, 05:07 PM
stem cells and regenerative dentistry. salivary diagnostics, tissue engineering and biofilm characterization with innovative therapy

captaintripps
03-29-2006, 05:09 PM
A supposed link between periodontal disease and stroke.

blankguy
03-29-2006, 05:16 PM
If they could only figure out how to grow teeth...
Actually that would hurt implant dentistry wouldn't it? :meanie:

darius99
03-29-2006, 05:41 PM
to me personally, salivary diagnosis is the most interesting area of up and coming research, and this ties in with the connection between oral and overall health

toothart
03-29-2006, 07:55 PM
Health Promotion
Systemic Health and Oral Health
Oral Cancer

One may be more important than the other, but they are mentioned frequently during our day.

ReG

Comet208
03-29-2006, 10:14 PM
Enamel regeneration
salivary diagnosis
tooth whitening agents
caries vaccine (they will never get this one)

SuperC
03-29-2006, 10:45 PM
A supposed link between periodontal disease and stroke.

This has been pretty well documented. Now we are on the the pathogenesis of it all.
-C

OMFSCardsFan
03-29-2006, 10:59 PM
I am just curious, what's the hottest research are in dentistry right now for those of you are involving with your dental school? Thanks! :)
My buddy down at San Antonio is studying the use of fetal foreskin as a graft material instead of alloderm. Who wants a piece of a cadaver in their mouths anyway?

He's been looking for donors if anyone is interested. PM him--PerioGod.

Periogod
03-30-2006, 04:32 PM
My buddy down at San Antonio is studying the use of fetal foreskin as a graft material instead of alloderm. Who wants a piece of a cadaver in their mouths anyway?

He's been looking for donors if anyone is interested. PM him--PerioGod.

I got the idea after seeing an area of recession in OMFSCardsFan's mouth magically heal itself. I then thought to myself, "What is in CardsFan's mouth that isn't in a normal person's."

simpledoc
03-30-2006, 05:59 PM
I am just curious, what's the hottest research are in dentistry right now for those of you are involving with your dental school? Thanks! :)
Oral sex and TMJ pain

OMFSCardsFan
03-30-2006, 06:41 PM
I then thought to myself, "What is in CardsFan's mouth that isn't in a normal person's."
The obvious answer is sitting across from you... :cool:

I was wondering where you've been. Hadn't seen you post in a while...

buchey
04-04-2006, 07:49 PM
My undergrad Thesis paper (required by all biology majors) is a journal review on stem cell research and regenerative dentistry, which actually is quite advanced already!

ScubaDr2B
04-04-2006, 08:15 PM
TMD related to occlusion or not