Interdisciplinary Approaches for Integrating Materials Science and Dentistry

Galvin Sim Siang Lin¹, Carlos A Jurado², Kelvin I Afrashtehfar^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Dental Materials, Faculty of Dentistry, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST) University, Bedong 08100, Kedah, Malaysia.
² Department of Prosthodontics, The University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
³ Evidence-Based Practice Unit, Clinical Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman City P.O. Box 346, United Arab Emirates.
⁴ Department of Reconstructive Dentistry and Gerodontology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.

Editorial

Galvin Sim Siang Lin et al. Bioengineering (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 Mar 9;10(3):344.

doi: 10.3390/bioengineering10030344.

Galvin Sim Siang Lin¹, Carlos A Jurado², Kelvin I Afrashtehfar^{3

4}

¹ Department of Dental Materials, Faculty of Dentistry, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST) University, Bedong 08100, Kedah, Malaysia.
² Department of Prosthodontics, The University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
³ Evidence-Based Practice Unit, Clinical Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman City P.O. Box 346, United Arab Emirates.
⁴ Department of Reconstructive Dentistry and Gerodontology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

Dental materials science is a core course in most undergraduate dental curricula [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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