New Concepts for Dental Treatments and Evaluations

Dear Colleagues,

Dental medicine has benefited from significant advances in terms of both diagnosis and treatment. Thus, well-established techniques such as radiography, microscopy, and the gold standard of histopathology for clinical assessments as well as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and micro-CT for research purposes are being complemented by rapidly evolving techniques such as optical coherence tomography (OCT). The latter targets both hard and soft tissue of the oral cavity, including the use of Doppler OCT.

Modern dental treatments, such as laser-based procedures, complement the classical approaches.

Biomaterials have been developed, including for dental crowns, scaffolds (for example, for bone augmentation in implantology), or dental adhesives.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for contributions regarding all the above topics as well as other relevant and timely aspects concerning techniques for both diagnosis and treatment in addition to their assessment.

While this forum is open to all researchers in the fields above, it also provides a topical selection of papers presented at the 1^st International Conference ‘Advances in 3OM: Opto-Mechatronics, Opto-Mechanics, and Optical Metrology’ (Timisoara, Romania), organized in celebration of 100 years of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara but also in the frame of UNESCO’s International Day of Light (IDL).

All types of contributions, e.g., research papers, reviews, and communications are welcome.

Prof. Cosmin Sinescu
Prof. Virgil-Florin Duma
Guest Editors

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