BIOCITY TURKU BIOMATERIALS RESEARCH PROGRAM AND
INSTITUTE OF DENTISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF TURKU IN COLLABORATION WITH FINDOS
(Finnish National Doctorate Program of Oral Sciences)
organize
SUMMER SCHOOL OF DENTAL BIOMATERIALS
in the Seili island, Turku Archipelago, Finland on August 25-28, 2014
Dental resin composites, polymerization and related properties
Summer School Hosts:
Professor Pekka Vallittu (University of Turku)
Professor Arzu Tezvergil-Mutluay (University of Turku)
Sponsors
Heraus Kulzer, 3M, Stick Tech – Member of GC Group, Dentsply
Summer School Final Programme
Day 1 25.8.2014
Arrival to Turku by plane, bus or train
13:00 Get together, Bus+ferry transportation from Turku city center to Seili island
16:00 Arrival to the Seili Island and check in
17:00 Course Introduction and Schedule Presentation, introduction of participants (Arzu Tezvergil-Mutluay and Pekka Vallittu)
17:15 Composites: An introduction (Prof David Watts)
18:00 Dinner
18:45 Light Curing: An Introduction (Prof Richard Price)
19:30 Introduction to Finnish Sauna
Day 2 26.8.2014
07:15 Breakfast
08:00 How the chemical formulation of dental composites necessitates control of specific variables during photo-curing and beyond to deliver meaningful scientific information (Prof David Watts)
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Curing Lights –Why they are so important to your practice, what's old, what's new, what's the difference? Prof Richard Price
14:00 Coffee Break
14:30 The CORE principles to successful light curing. How MARC can help you deliver successful resin based restorations for your patients (Prof Richard Price)
16:30 A visit to the Finnish history and history of Seili Island and Out-door activities
18:00 Dinner and sauna
Day 3 27.8.2014
07:15 Breakfast
08:30 Composite properties and their clinical relevance (Prof Martin Rosentritt)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 New technologies for dental composites (Prof Martin Rosentritt)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Hands – on clinics
How to characterize the light output? (Dr Murat Mutluay, Prof Richard Price)
Use of composites for minimal invasive dentistry (Prof Pekka Vallittu, Prof. Arzu Tezvergil-Mutluay)
16:30 Conclusions and Outdoor activities
18:00 Dinner and sauna
Day 4 28.8.2014
07:15 Breakfast
08:30 Young Scientist Challenge
09:00 Biomimetic restoration and Durability; Short fiber reinforced resin composites and self-etch adhesives (Assis. Prof Akimasa Tsujimoto)
09:30 TEM interfacial characterization of 'mild' self-etch adhesives bonded to enamel/dentin (Assis. Prof. Atsushi Mine)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Bonding Performance of Self-etch Adhesives from the Perspective of Fatigue Limits. (Assis. Prof. Toshiki Takamizawa)
11:00 Summary and conclusions
11:30 Lunch
13:00 Departure to Turku
15:00 Arrival to Turku City Center and Goodbye
