The International Workshop and Symposium on Synthesis and Characterisation of Glass/Glass Ceramics -2010 was organised by the C-MET (Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology,Pune and MRSI (Materials Research Society of India) on 9th and 10th July 2010 at YASHADA,Pune.
This was conference dedicated to Ceramics, Ceramic technologies and Research trends in Ceramics.
I presented a poster on Dental Porcelain Crown technology - What, Why , How.
I chose a basic topic and highlighted the porcelain material used in our dental purposes and specifically how we get the porcelian to bond to the alloy used as a substructure in out dental crowns.
The poster came as a refreshing change for the delegates attending the conference as they were primarily scientists with engineering backgrounds , all involved in heavy-duty research on glass ceramics. Needless to say, I got lots of questions, and very frankly it was nice to juggle between the role of a dentist (when I used to explain what crowns are and why they are used etc) and a scientific delegate explaining my poster. Many a delegate left a little bemused, but definitely wiser about Dental Porcelain Technology... which unless I've made a serious error in judgment is the most happening field in Dental materials science research of today and the future.
