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Dental Applications of Atmospheric-Pressure Non-Thermal Plasmas

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This chapter presents a summary of selected recent research efforts devoted to the use of low-temperature (or non-thermal) atmospheric-pressure plasmas in various dental applications. Areas of application that will be discussed here in some depth include the surface modification and functionalization of selected dental surfaces and materials, plasma-induced and plasma-assisted in-vitro teeth bleaching, and dental bacteria and bacterial biofilm inactivation in root canals. This chapter is not intended to provide a comprehensive overview of all dental applications of atmospheric-pressure, non-thermal plasmas, nor to review the diverse research efforts carried out by many groups in this field, but rather focus on a few applications, which have been the recent research focus of the authors and their collaborators.

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This work was supported in part by Bioelectrics Inc. (U.S.), by the Peking University Biomed-X Foundation, by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Program of the China International Science and Technology Cooperation under Grant 2009DFB30370, by the China National Basic Research Program under Grant 2007CB935602, and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant lzujbky-2012-159. W. Zhu would like to acknowledge partial support from the Electro-Energetic Physics Program of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant Number FA9550-08-1-0332 for the fundamental studies of the PMJ and the initial development of PP. The authors would like to thank Ms. Ruixue Wang for her assistance in the preparation of this manuscript at its early stage.

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  1. Department of Applied Science and Technology, Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ, 07306, USA

    WeiDong Zhu

  2. Department of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Kurt Becker

  3. Department of General Dentistry, Peking University School of Stomatology, Beijing, China

    Jie Pan

  4. College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Jue Zhang & Jing Fang

  5. Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Jue Zhang & Jing Fang

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Zhu, W., Becker, K., Pan, J., Zhang, J., Fang, J. (2014). Dental Applications of Atmospheric-Pressure Non-Thermal Plasmas. In: Bonitz, M., Lopez, J., Becker, K., Thomsen, H. (eds) Complex Plasmas. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 82. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05437-7_14

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