Report of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry

Abstract

The growth in the dental literature continues to escalate, as evidenced by the publication of at least 326 new books in 1988 and 1989 and more than 20 new journals in 1989. There still appears to be undue emphasis on quantity instead of quality of research. This proliferation in the literature poses ever increasing difficulties to this Committee in filtering out the articles that are of particular interest to the members of the Academy and identifying those that are most likely to have a major impact on dental practice and service. The subjects covered include periodontics, caries and preventive dentistry, craniomandibular disorders, occlusion, pulp biology, ceramics, and restorative dental materials.

Bone augmentation with a prototype coral exoskeleton-derived bone replacement material applied to experimental one-wall infrabony defects created in alveolar bone

“…Periodontology generally focuses on wound excision of periodontal pockets. Moreover, in the past, artificial scaffold materials were not used for treatment 16,17) . However, materials have now been developed for periodontal tissue regeneration after periodontal disease [18][19][20][21] .…”