Associate Professor James Tsoi

Title
NMechanical and biological aspects of dental CAD/CAM ceramics

Abstract
Modern dental CAD/CAM ceramics have enabled prosthetic dentistry towards an aesthetic and functional era. These materials may be different and should be used and evaluated in different ways. However, for materials "advocated" with the same chemical entity, do they the same? In addition, how to let laboratory-based research and data become valuable information to clinical or dental technician practices? This lecture will try to address these questions by assessing the mechanical and biological aspects of modern dental CAD/CAM ceramics.

Dr James Tsoi is an Associate Professor in Dental Materials Science and Assistant Dean (Innovation) at HKU Faculty of Dentistry. He received BSc in Applied and Analytical Chemistry and PhD in Dental Materials Science, all at the University of Hong Kong. He also holds the Memberships of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and British Computer Society (MBCS), and Fellow in Advanced HE (FHEA).
James is actively engaged in a number of research areas including: Dental materials science (mechanical behaviours, bonding and ceramics), biomaterials (scaffold), digital dentistry (CAD/CAM and AI) and dental education (basic science and e-learning). He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, graduated 32 MSc and 11 PhDs, and been awarded 8 times in international conferences since he joined as a HKU Dentistry member in 2012. He is currently serving on editorial boards of several SCI journals, being as Vice-president in IADR-DMG (2023-2024), Member-at-large in the Academy of Dental Materials (2022-2024), and Hong Kong head-of-delegate in ISO/TC 106 (Dentistry).