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Dental Materials:
- Facilities
- Faculty
- Staff
- Teaching
Contact Information:
Section of Dental Materials
Dept. of Oral Rehabilitation
School of Dentistry
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA 30912-1260
Phone: (706) 721-3354
Fax: (706) 721-8349
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Section of Dental Materials:
Facilities
- Instron 8562 servomechanical testing instrument, 11"/min to 1 µ/hr
- Instron 8501 servohydraulic testing instrument, cyclic testing up to
20 cycles/sec.
- Two - 10 sample testing fixtures with data collection system to
monitor cyclic and static fatigue testing of porcelain samples in
biaxial flexure
- Instron, TTB, mechanical testing instrument
- B&R dental materials testing system
- CSI - CS-137X, pendulum impact tester (Charpy, Izod, and tensile
impact tests)
- Theta, differential dilatometer system, computer control - data
collection
- Tektronix Type RM 565 dual beam oscilloscope with differential inputs
- Wilson, model MO, microhardness tester
- High heating and cooling rate "no load" laser dilatometer, >800°C/min
- High heating and cooling rate bending beam viscometer, >800°C/min
- Rigaku Geigerflex DMAX/B diffractometer, 50kV, with 1600°C furnace
attachment
- Bio-Rad, (Digilab), FTS-40, 0.5 cm-1 resolution, Fourier
Transform Infrared spectrometer with WINIR data collection and analysis
system, capable of real-time kinetics studies, including UMA-500 FTIR
microscope attachment
- TA Instruments, thermal analysis system:
- Thermal Analyst 2200; Model 910 DSC; Model 2950 Hi-Res automatic,
16-sample TGA; Model 983 DMA; 1600o C DTA, LN2 cooling -150oC
to ambient, Model 943 TMA HP-7475 plotter
- Lepel ACF1 induction casting machine, cast alloys to 3000°C
- Thermolyne type 46200, 1700°C furnace with 10"x10"x10" muffle
- Rutland milling and drilling machine
- Laminar flow hoods
- CO2 incubators
- Inverted phase contrast microscope
- Coulter counter
- Purified water system (18 megohms)
- Table top and floor centrifuges.
- Fluorescent microscope
- Agarose and PAGE electrophoresis equipment
- Hybridization oven
- UV-Vis spectrophotometer
- Plate reader, with computer interface
- PCR equipment
- Acrylamide gel dryer
- Beta counter
- Complete histological sectioning laboratory
- Gamma counter
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometers, with graphite furnace
- Labsphere spectral radiometer (model DAS 2000) integrating sphere for
spectral irradiance measurements between 350 to 1050nm, calibrated to NIST
standard
- Ocean Optics FOXY system for optically measuring oxygen concentration
- Taylor Hobson Form TalySurf Series 2 surface texture/metrology system
with 3-D scanning capability
- Mercury dilatometer made by NIST for determining polymerization
shrinkage of light-cured dental restorative materials
- Custom-made differential eddy current device to measure real-time
volumetric polymerization shrinkage of dental restorative materials.
- Instrumentation for determining in vitro
intrapulpal temperature rise resulting from exposure to dental
light-curing processes.
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