DENT 5202 - DENTAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

[1 Credit]

This post-graduate course will review the fundamentals of dental materials, update the information of the latest development in dental materials, and relate them to the clinic applications. The course content will include the study of the compositions, properties, applications, and manipulation of metallic, ceramic and polymeric dental materials. The course also introduces the graduate students to the common methods and equipment used in dental materials research. Besides lectures and final exam, this course also includes literature reviews and presentations. This course is currently offered every other year (2006, 2008)