Schedule of Events

Time

Theme: Bioactive Glass/ Glass-ceramic Problems, Solutions and Innovations.

9.0

Welcome, Organization:

9.30

Bioactive glasses past, present and future.

10.0

Bioactive glass innovations for use in toothpastes.

10.30-11.0

Coffee Break

11.0

Use of bioactive materials to address Problems in implantology.

11.30

Bioactive cements; solutions to a bone cement problem.

12.0

Apatite-wollstonite glass ceramics; effect of strontium substitution on the structure and on physical and biological properties.

12.30-1.30

lunch and Poster display

1.30

Is there an issue with YTZP ceramics? Conference debate.

2.15

Design of leucite glass-ceramics using Appen factors.

2.45-3.15

Cofee Break

3.15

Evaluating crystallisation mechanisms in novel glass-ceramics using TEM.

3.45

Innovations in Glass-Ceramic Technology for Dental Materials.

4.15

Adhesive Cementation and The Strengthening Of All-Ceramic Dental Restorations.

4.45

Closing remarks/Day 1

Time

Theme: Dental Composite/Polymers Problems, Solutions and  Innovations.

8.45

Welcome, Organization

9.0

Complex Number Aspects of Resin-Monomers and Composites.

9.30

Biomimetic flake glass composites.

10.0

The next wave of bulk-fill resin composites: designing deep cure with reduced translucency.

10.30-11.0

Cofee Break

11.0

Characterisation of nano-mechanical properties of resin-composites.

11.30

Behaviour of fast curing resin composites: getting the formulation just right.

12.0

Self-adhesive remineralising and antibacterial composites.

12.30

Aspect of bonding: Controlling collagen degradation in hybridised dentin/resin interfaces.

1.0-2.15

 lunch and Poster session

Time

Theme: Material characterisation, Problems, Solutions and Innovations.

2.15

NMR and structure property relations in biomaterials.

2.45

FIB-SEM 3D tomography of biomaterials.

3.15

Diffraction Tomography as it relates to dental hard tissues.

3.45

Aerospace Materials.

4.15

Poster award

Closing remarks/ look forward.