Teaching

The Department of Biomaterials and Regenerative Dental Medicine directs the following courses: 

• BMAT 512 - Dental Biomaterials I (for year 1 DDS students). 
• BMAT 521 - Dental Biomaterials II (for year 2 DDS students). 
• Pros 598A - Adv Dent Mater (for Pros residents). 
• DBMS 639 - Advanced Biomaterials I (for PhD students). 
• DBMS 640 - Advanced Biomaterials II (for PhD students). 

Training PhD students and Postdoctors 

The Department of Biomaterials and Regenerative Dental Medicine mentors PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. We have supervised and trained dozens of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Many of them have grown to become professors in various dental schools. Some of them have become national and international leaders in their fields. 

Collaborations

We have developed fruitful and productive collaborations with excellent researchers, including Prof. Abraham Schneider, Dr. Jirun Sun, Dr. Carl G. Simon, Prof. Mary Anne Melo, Prof. Mark A. Reynolds, Prof. Thomas W. Oates, Prof. Dwayne D. Arola, Dr. Laurence C. Chow, Prof. Gary D. Hack, etc.  

Current and Former PhD Students

• Heba Alqarni
• Yazeed Altamimi
• Ayman Altamimi
• Mohammad Alenizy
• Ibrahim Ba Armah
• Nader Almutairi
• Abdullah Alhussein
• Ebtehal Albeshir
• Hanan Filemban
• Rashed Alsahafi
• Heba Mitwalli
• Ghalia Bhadila
• Bashayer Baras
• Abdulrahman Balhaddad (Co-mentor with Dr. Melo)
• Maria Ibrahim (Co-mentor with Dr. Melo)
• Faisal Alqarni
• Yousif Al Dulaijan