Professor EmeritusIven Klineberg

Occlusion and Orofacial Pain: Clinical Research Unit was established in 1980 - now the Jaw Function and Orofacial Pain Research Unit and linked with the Nobel Biocare Centre of Oral Rehabilitation. The unit supports studies on occlusion and temporomandibular joint function and dysfunction ? including jaw muscle electromyography and jaw kinematics. International collaboration has been ongoing with Barry Sessle(Uni Toronto), Sandro Palla(Uni Zurich) and more recently Frauke Mueller(Uni Geneva). Graduate research students (M Phil, PhD) contribute to the research projects. International collaboration was established with ACTA (Amsterdam) for regular student placement for 3 or 4 month projects.

Oral Implants: The clinical use of oral implants were studied initially in collaboration with Tomas Albrektsson(Uni Gothenburg) and included guided bone augmentation and biomechanical considerations of linking osseointegrated implants and natural teeth.

Current implant studies include ultramicroscopy (PhD) and immunohistochemistry (BDent honours)of oral implant sites, optomising occlusal form with implant rehabilitation (PhD with Mike Swain) and recently bioscafold and PRF augmentation of bone healing. The latter are to be applied to management of Ectodermal Dysplasia with implants in growing bone; this follows an international DELPHI study which included Prof John Hobkirk(London), Dr Birgitta Bergindal(Sweden), Prof Marie Cecile Maniere(Uni Strasbourg), Prof Clark Stanford(Uni Iowa), Prof Arun Sharma(UCLA), A/Prof Albert Gukes(Uni North Carolina) .