The Academy of Dental Materials: Providing roots and wings.

ObjectivesThe long history of the Academy of Dental Materials (ADM) is documented with its strategies (a) to rapidly communicate science among its members, (b) to establish special awards to stimulate new science, and (c) to develop new dental materials scientists.MethodsWe searched the history of the last 35 years of the ADM newsletters, transactions, journals, and officer notes. We document the (a) presidents, (b) meeting history, (c) membership growth, and (d) development of special awards through 2019 with the recent creation of the ADM Marshall Post-Doctoral Award.ResultsThere are 36 years of recent ADM history, 42 international meetings, membership growth to 400 individuals from 15 countries, service of 19 presidents, Paffenbarger annual Awardees since 1989, induction of >200 fellows, and recognition of the first winner of Marshall Post-Doctoral Award in 2018. New directions for recruiting members are suggested. Three potential new thrusts for the organization are presented: artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and intensive member mentoring.SignificanceThese suggestions for the ADM provide a path for the ADM to continue to adapt to the ever changing scientific landscape

COMMENTARY. effects of glass fiber layering on the flexural strength of microfill and hybrid composites

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Dental Materials

This course explores dental materials, including gold alloys, composites, amalgams, glass ionomers, ceramics, waxes, etc. for operative dentistry, fixed and removable prosthodontics.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64935/5/dental-materials.zi

An Essay on the Hebrew Civil Code

Reviewed as a legal unit the written law of the Torah in the Pentateuch adequately regulates the religious, moral and ethical life of the Chosen People, reflects fully the divine calling of the nation of Yahweh and Moses. However, the written legislation of a purely civil nature is incomplete, and confirms other evidences of customary, unwritten law of equally ancient origin. But, upon the entire Hebrew Civil Code, written and unwritten,Yahweh, Moses and the prophets have, at whatever date of promulgation, left the stamp of divinity, of a revealed law of the God of the Chosen People; and at the base of all is the Decalogue, permeating the whole with the morality of the Lord God of Israel

Why are the next steps in biomaterials research so difficult?

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COMMENTARY. hardness of three resin-modified glass-ionomer restorative materials as a function of depth and time

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