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Research activities

Department of Oral Biology and Experimental Dental Research

The aim of the research activities of the Department of Oral Biology and Experimental Dental Research is to promote basic research in dental sciences, to develop and apply new materials and healing methods in the classic and modern dental practice.

The research areas are continuously expanding due to the new PhD students and to the different specialties of the senior scientists who joined the Department/Faculty to fulfill the requirements of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee.

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Actual research areas:

Nr.	Research Area	Group Leader	Participants
1.	Halitosis. Measuring volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs), including hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan and dimethyl sulfide with gas chromatograph (OralChroma) and comparison with ammonia concentrations detected with an instrument based on photoacoustic (PA) spectroscopy. Cooperation with the Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics (Faculty of Science and Informatics).	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY	Prof. Dr. Zoltán RAKONCZAY Prof. Dr. István GORZÓ Dr. Kinga TURZÓ Dr. Zsófia TARNAI
2.	Surface modification methods of titanium dental implants to improve their biointegration: laser ablation and polishing, octacalcium phosphate (OCP), polypeptide and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) coatings. Investigation of these surfaces with: atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), in vitro cell culture (epithelial, fibroblast and osteoblast) testing and animal experiments.	Dr. Kinga TURZÓ Dr. István PELSŐCZI-K.	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY Prof. Dr. Zoltán RAKONCZAY Dr. Danica MATUSOVITS Dr. Ágnes GYÖRGYEY
3.	Corrosive effects of fluoride on titanium: investigation by XPS, AFM, SEM, human epithelial cell culturing and microbiological investigations.	Dr. Kinga TURZÓ	Dr. Anette STÁJER Dr. Krisztina UNGVÁRI
4.	AFM, XPS and in vitro cell culture (epithelial) testing of decontaminated titanium dental implants.	Dr. Kinga TURZÓ Prof. Dr. Zoltán RAKONCZAY	Dr. Krisztina UNGVÁRI Dr. Ágnes GYÖRGYEY
5.	Effect of ABO antigens’ expression into saliva on childhood caries.	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY Prof. Dr. Zoltán RAKONCZAY	Dr. Kinga TURZÓ
6.	Study of the biocompatibility of the zirconia and other restorative ceramic materials by means of in vitro epithelial cell culture testing.	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY Dr. Kinga TURZÓ	Dr. Krisztina UNGVÁRI Dr. István PELSŐCZI-K. Dr. Ágnes GYÖRGYEY
7.	Incidence of HPV induced tumors, oral microbiome.	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY Dr. Krisztina BUZÁS	Dr. Kinga TURZÓ Dr. Gábor DECSI Dr. Zsófia TARNAI
8.	Microbiological testing of endodontic materials.	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY	Dr. Márk FRÁTER
9.	Study of the reproducibility of the tooth color. Study of the golden proportion rule in the upper front teeth region.	Prof. Dr. Katalin NAGY Dr. Márk ANTAL	Dr. Kinga TURZÓ

Cooperations:

University of Szeged

Faculty of Medicine:

Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Institute of Surgical Research, Department of Dermatology and Allergology (Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical Center), Department of Anatomy, Department of Physiology, Supramolecular and Nanostructured Materials Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Faculty of Science and Informatics:

Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Research Group on Laser Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry and Material Sciences, Department of Plant Biology

Faculty of Engineering:

Department of Food Engineering

Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry:

Oral Biology Departmen