Advancing Dental Care: Funding vital to realise ambitions

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What is (and is not) vital to advancing cellulosic ethanol.

Ethanol made biologically from cellulosic biomass, including agricultural and forestry residues, portions of municipal waste, and herbaceous and woody crops, is finally being widely recognized as a unique transportation fuel with powerful economic, environmental and strategic attributes. Although underfunded, it has been advanced to be competitive with corn ethanol; however, government policies...

Advancing Science to Advance Care

Those simple words in the title of this piece capture a significant aspect of our mission as a professional society. We strive to accomplish this lofty goal through our annual meeting, its presentations, abstracts, poster sessions and awards. Our commitment to fellowship training is evidenced not only by a long-standing focus on specialty education, but also supported by the recent creation of ...

An introduction to research for primary dental care clinicians part 5: stage 6b. Obtaining funding.

Introduction This paper, the fifth in the series, will address the sixth of the ten stages of a research project suggested in the first paper. The ten suggested stages are: 1. The initial idea (asking a research question). 2. Searching the literature. 3. Refining the research question. 4. Planning the study. 5. Writing a protocol. 6. Obtaining ethical approval and funding. 7. Piloting the metho...

Advancing dental implant surface technology--from micron- to nanotopography.

Current trends in clinical dental implant therapy include use of endosseous dental implant surfaces embellished with nanoscale topographies. The goal of this review is to consider the role of nanoscale topographic modification of titanium substrates for the purpose of improving osseointegration. Nanotechnology offers engineers and biologists new ways of interacting with relevant biological proc...