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 | Price, Richard |
Phone: 902-494-1226 Email: rbprice@dal.ca |
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Professor, Department of Dental Clinical Sciences
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Research Interests:
Over the past 15 years I have built world-leading expertise in the design, evaluation, and use of dental curing lights. My optics laboratory houses a FT-IR spectrometer, capable of real time monitoring of resin polymerization, an automated hardness tester, laser beam profilers, fiberoptic spectrometers and power meters. I have worked with most of the global dental manufacturers assisting them to evaluate and study their new curing lights, materials and provide consulting advice. I am an inventor on a patent application filed by Dalhousie University for MARC™ (a device which measures the light energy delivered to simulated restorations). Currently I am investigating the longevity of posterior resin composite restorations, the light output from dental curing lights in dental offices, the existence of any 'blue-light' hazard, the benefits of fast vs. slow curing of dental restorations.
Links:
http://www.cda-adc.ca/en/services/essentials/2014/issue2/#31/z
http://dalnews.dal.ca/2010/04/29/marc.html
http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/~labrie/facilities.html
www.jcda.ca/article/a94
Research Projects:
| First International Symposium on Light Sources in Dentistry Funding | |||||
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| Funding Agency: | CIHR Dissemination Events | ||||
| Start Date: | 2012 | End Date: | 2013 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Link: | http://www.dal.ca/faculty/dentistry/news-events/news/2012/10/22/world_experts_gather_in_halifax.html | ||||
| A Population Based Study To Compare The Long-Term Survival and Costs Of Posterior Amalgam And Resin Composite Restorations | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Nunatsiavut Government | ||||
| Start Date: | 2012 | End Date: | 2013 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Co-Investigators: | S Birch, P Andreou, G Jones, A Portolesi | ||||
| Developing a New Standard for Reporting the Light Output from Dental Curing Lights | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Faculty of Dentistry Research Fund | ||||
| Start Date: | 2011 | End Date: | 2012 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Defining the requirements for a commercial device that can be used to assess adequacy of the polymerisation of light cured polymeric resin materials. | |||||
| Description: | In this project the Price laboratory worked with BlueLight to develop a device that can correlate the results obtained on MARC with the capacity of a variety of curing lights to polymerize dental resin material from a variety of manufacturers. | ||||
| Funding Agency: | NSERC Engage | ||||
| Start Date: | 2010 | End Date: | 2011 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Co-Investigators: | Christopher Felix | ||||
| An Evaluation of Six Light-Emitting Diode Curing Lights to Cure Two Composites | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Invoclar-Vivodent Research Contract | ||||
| Start Date: | 2010 | End Date: | 2011 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Advancing a Novel Training and Research Tool in Response to Market Feedback | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Innovacorp Early Stage Commercialization Fund | ||||
| Start Date: | 2010 | End Date: | 2011 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Bridge Funding | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Faculty Research Fund | ||||
| Start Date: | 2008 | End Date: | 2009 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| A Prototype Curing Light | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Parkell and Ivoclar-Vivadent | ||||
| Start Date: | 2007 | End Date: | 2008 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Self-etching Bonding Systems | |||||
| Funding Agency: | 3M ESPE | ||||
| Start Date: | 2007 | End Date: | 2008 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Evaluating a New Self Etching Dentin Bonding System | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Ultradent | ||||
| Start Date: | 2006 | End Date: | 2007 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Comparing the Effects of Seven Different Curing Lights on the Knoop Hardness of Five Composites | |||||
| Funding Agency: | Den-Mat | ||||
| Start Date: | 2006 | End Date: | 2007 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||
| Development of a Collaborative Team to Study the Cytotoxic Effects of Inadequate Polymerization of Resin Composites, and the Cytotoxic Effects of Dental Curing Lights | |||||
| Funding Agency: | CIHR Short Term Clinician Investigator Award | ||||
| Start Date: | 2005 | End Date: | 2006 | ||
| Investigator Status: | Principal Investigator | ||||