Cardiff School of Dentistry

Research Theme

Tissue Engineering & Reparative Dentistry

Research Group

Mineralised Tissue Biology in Repair and Regeneration of the Dental Tissues

Research Interests

• Trends in Operative Dentistry and Minimally Invasive Dentistry
• Dental education (e.g. quality of teaching programmes and outreach teaching)
• Trends in general dental practice
• Quality and outcome of clinical treatments,
• Dental materials, including resin based composite materials
• Dental enamel microstructure
• Dentine - pulp biology and dental tissue wound healing

In the news

• Dr Chris Lynch inducted as Fellow of the American College of Dentists
• Dr Chris Lynch appointed Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Dentistry
• Dr Chris Lynch receives British Dental Editors Forum (BDEF) Young Writer Award

Recent conference presentations

• Current trends in community based clinical teaching programmes in UK and Ireland dental school programmes. Second national Community Based Clinical Teaching Conference, Leigh Court, Gloucestershire, April 2011 (Invited Lecture)

• Teaching of repair of defective composite restorations in North American and European dental schools. Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators (CODE) at the Academy of Operative Dentistry 2011 – Chicago: (Invited Lecture)

• Current trends in the teaching of posterior composites to dental students. Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators (CODE) at the Academy of Operative Dentistry 2010 – Chicago: (Invited Lecture).

Selected Projects

• Along with Dr Alastair Sloan and the Mineralised Tissue Group (of which I am a member) and other colleagues within Cardiff University, we are investigating the effects of contemporary dental restorative materials on the dentine-pulp complex, as well as investigating the development of novel biologically-active dental restorative and endodontic materials. I am Principal Investigator on a grant from the Dunhill Medical Trust in this area;

• Previous and ongoing projects of interest have included examination contemporary trends in dental education and teaching programmes (e.g. teaching of posterior composites, community-based clinical teaching, fixed and removable prosthodontics, dental implants), along with trends in general dental practice (e.g. placement techniques for posterior composites, use of rubber dam and quality issues in the provision of prosthodontic care).