Name of the research center: DENTAL RESEARCH CENTER USING CONVENTIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES/ acronym CMDTCA

Director of the research center: Professor Cosmin Sinescu, DMD, PhD.

Date of establishment/ acknowledgement: 05.03.2021

Research areas/ research opportunities:

Research areas of our research center are:

1. Tests on dental crowns, dentures, scaffold, etc.:

  • metallic;
  • polymeric;
  • ceramics;
  • combinations of materials;
  • modern materials.

2. Tests on biological samples: extracted human teeth, soft tissue etc.

3. Theoretical evaluations

  • Design structure;
  • Numerical simulation (FEM, FVM etc)
  • Dynamic evaluations (MFPS etc)

4. Mechanical evaluations

  • mechanical tests on traction / compression, etc .;
  • micro-hardness;
  • roughness.

5. Imagistic evaluations

  • microscopic evaluations;
  • CBCT evaluations;
  • SEM and TEM evaluations;
  • Coherent Optical Tomography (OCT) Time Domain (TD) and Spectral Domain (SD) evaluation
  • microCT assessments.

6. Printing structures

  • SLS / SLM printing;
  • FDM printing;
  • SLA printing.
Members list:

Titular members:

Nr.

Name and surname of the titular member (didactic/ research personnel)

Didactic/ research degree

1.

Sinescu Cosmin

Professor, DMD, PhD.

2.

Negruțiu Meda Lavinia

Professor, DMD, PhD.

3.

Romînu Mihai

Professor, DMD, PhD.

4.

Crăciunescu Emanuela Lidia

Assoc. Professor, DMD, PhD

5.

Pop Daniela Maria

Senior Lecturer, DMD, PhD

6.

Stoia Adelina Elena

Senior Lecturer, DMD, PhD

7.

Zaharia Cristian

Senior Lecturer, DMD, PhD

8.

Hajaj Tareq

Assistant lecturer, DMD, PhD

9.

Stan Adrian

Assistant lecturer, DMD, PhD

 

Associated members:

Nr.

Name and surname

Student, masters student, PhD student, postdoctoral student, auxilliary and non-teaching staff

1.

Măroiu Alexandra Cristina

PhD student

2.

Cojocariu Andreea Codruța

PhD student

3.

Neagu Carina Sonia

PhD student

4.

Novac Andreea Codruța

PhD student

5.

Țogoe Marius Mihai

PhD student

6.

Dragoș Bianca

PhD student

7.

Stoian Caius

PhD student

8.

Todor Raluca

PhD student

9.

Șerban Christa

Student

10.

Mezei Annamaria-Timea

Student

11.

Bagosi Stefania Izabella

Student

12.

Breyer Christian

Student

13.

Ebru Ertan

Student

14.

Moldovan Ioana

Student

15.

Negruț Daria

Student

16.

Chețe Sofia

Student

17.

Săsăran -Botici Luana

Student

18.

Alhaddad Essa

Student

19.

Sava Teodora-Călina

Student

20.

Kolic Milica

Student

21.

Eftimie Patricia 

Resident doctor in dentistry 

 

Internal collaborators:

Nr.

Name and surname (didactic/ research personnel)

VBUMP Affiliation
(Discipline and department)

1.

Prof. Muntean Mirela-Danina, MD, PhD

Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. III

2.

Amăricăi Elena Constanța, Senior Lecturer, MD, PhD

Balneology, Medical Recovery And Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. XVI

3.

Tudor Anca, Senior Lecturer, MD, PhD

Informatics and Medical Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine,  Dep. III

4.

Horhat Florin, Associate Professor, MD, PhD

Microbiology Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. XIV

5.

Prof. Licker Monica Sorina, MD, PhD

Microbiology Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. XIV

6.

Bagiu Iulia Cristina, Assistant lecturer, MD, PhD

Microbiology Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. XIV

7.

Muntean Delia, Senior Lecturer, MD, PhD

Microbiology Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. XIV

8.

Prof. Dehelean Cristina Adriana, Pharmacist, PhD

Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy,  Dep.II

9.

Prof. Șoica Codruța-Marinela, Pharmacist, PhD

Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy,  Dep. II

10.

Mioc Marius-Nicolae, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacist, PhD

Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy,  Dep. II

11.

Racoviceanu Roxana-Marcela, Assistant lecturer, Chemical engineer, PhD

Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy,  Dep. II

12.

Prof. Puiu Maria, MD, PhD

Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. II

13.

Andreescu Nicoleta Ioana, Senior Lecturer, MD, PhD

Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. II

14.

Prof. Neagu Adrian, Physicist, PhD

Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. III

15.

Szuhanek Camelia, Senior Lecturer, DMD, PhD

Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Dep. II

16.

Prof. Marian Cătălin-Valer, MD, PhD

Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Dep. IV

17.

Tănase Alina Doina, Senior Lecturer, MD, PhD

 

Professional legislation in dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Dep. I

18.

Chioran Aoina Assistant professor, DMD, PhD

Dentoalveolar Surgery, Dep. II, Dental Medicine Faculty, UMFVBT

 

External collaborators:

Nr.

Name and surname
(didactic/ research personnel)

Affiliation  (Department,
institution/university, city, country)

1.

Experienced researcher, Miclău Marinela, CSII, PhD.

National Research-Development Institute for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, Timisoara

2.

Negru Radu Marcel, Associate Professor, Engineer, PhD

Department of Mechanics and Materials Strength, Politehnica University Timisoara

3.

Professor Mărșăvină Liviu, Engineer, PhD

Department of Mechanics and Materials Strength, Politehnica University Timisoara

4.

Professor Duma Virgil-Florin, Engineer, PhD

Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad

5.

Claudia Coțca, Doctor of Dental Surgery

Washington Institute For Dentistry & Laser Surgery, Chevy Chase, MD, S.U.A.

Chevy Chase, MD- Aesthetic Restorative Prosthodontics in GP, Chevy Chase, MD, S.U.A.

6.

Mostovei Andrei, Associate professor  

Catedra de chirurgie OMF și implantologie orală „Arsenie Guțan”, USMF Nicolae Testemițanu, Chișinău, Republica Moldova

7.

Angela Kamer, Professor  

NYU College of Dentistry, Dept. of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry

8.

Simona Hațegan, Researcher

NYU College of Dentistry

9.

ȘERBAN, Dan-Andrei Prof. Dr. -Eng. Habil.

Department of Mechatronics, Politehnica University Timișoara

Equipments UPT

The infrastructure at “Ştefan Nădăşan” Laboratory, Politehnica University Timișoara is used within the UMFT – UPT inter-university collaboration (ATU Alliance) for experimental and numerical stress and strain analysis provides the necessary equipment for project implementation:

  • Universal testing machine Zwick/Roell Z005, maximum load of 5kN, equipped with tensile, compression and bending grips, and a clip-on extensometer;
  • Universal static and dynamic Walter+bai testing machine, maximum load of 15kN in static regime (10kN in dynamic regime), equipped with clip-on and crack opening extensometers;
  • Universal testing machine METROTEC MTE-1 designed to perform tensile, compression and bending of very light materials up to 1 kN;
  • Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer DMA7100 Hitachi for dynamic and static measurements, simultaneous temperature and frequency dispersion measurement;
  • TQ SM1006 creep machine for plastics;
  • Instrumented Pendulum Impact Testing Instron CEAST 9050 for plastics and composite materials, ranging from 0.5-25J and using Charpy and Izod specimens;
  • CAD/CAM software Solidworks, and FEA software ANSYS, ABAQUS, Digimat;
  • Dantec Dynamics Q-400 3D Digital Image Correlation System and ISTRA 4D V2.8.6 software for stereographic measurements, testing, analysis and evaluation.