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Biomaterialer bilde-collage

Biomaterials โ€“ synthetic or biological โ€“ is an inter- and cross-disciplinary field comprising basic research and clinical studies on responses to materials used in dentistry and medicine. The Biomaterials Research Cluster is based at the Department of Clinical Dentistry, Department of Clinical Medicine, and Orthopedic Clinic of Haukeland University Hospital. It also involves departments at the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, national and international partners. 

"The overall goal of the Biomaterials Research cluster is to contribute to safer, more effective, and longer lasting (nano)materials for dental and medical use."

 

Research Areas

The Biomaterials group encompasses several research areas covering both in vitro and in vivo aspects of pre-clinical and clinical research:

 

NanoSafety and NanoMedicine

Clinical Dental Biomaterials

Biomaterials in surgery: Biomatlab

Green Biomaterials

MoBaTann: Biobank for Human Primary Teeth
 

 

 

 

     

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    Best paper in toxicology in Norway 2024 and paper in Nature Protocols

    The article was published in NanoToday and is an international collaboration, which highlights the very important and relevant issue of interference of nanomaterials with in vitro studies, which hampers the assessment of nanomaterialsโ€™ biological effects.

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    Picture of speakers at the ITAPA conference

    Slovak-Norwegian cooperation in solving global health challenges ๐ŸŒ

    The Department of Clinical Dentistry is proud of its participation in the ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐—œ๐—ง๐—”๐—ฃ๐—” โ€“ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ at the Autumn ITAPA Conference 2024

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    New doctoral degree - Victoria Xenaki

    Victoria Xenaki defended her thesis for the PhD-degree at the University of Bergen on the 23 of May. The title of the thesis is: " Nanosafety aspects: Dental health care workersโ€™ perception of nanomaterials and in vitro nanotoxicity assessment using new approach methodologies ".

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    Bilde av de to studentene Ragnhild E. Krage (th) og Margit Hรฅgรฅ sammen med  presidenten i NTF, Heming Olsen-Bergem.

    Plastic Waste in Dentistry from an Environmental perspective

    Congratulations to Ragnhild E. Krage (to the right) and Margit Hรฅgรฅ who won the student research price at the Norwegian Dental Association Meeting (November 2023). Here they are together with the president of the Norwegian Dental Association, Heming Olsen-Bergem.

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    The NanoBioReal Group

    Workshop: New Approach Methodologies for NanoSafety

    The Workshop โ€œNew Approach Methodologies for NanoSafetyโ€ and the โ€œNanoBioRealโ€ Project meeting were held in Bergen on March 30th and March 31st, 2023. ...