This is one of the UCLA slogans but I want to send this to the researchers in my lab and all next-generation dentists and people. This is exactly what I hope and hoped for our team members. You are the heroes.
Good to see our friends being successful.
A current member of Team Surface, Mr. Brent Amiri, just started dental school at UCLA. Team Surface is pleased to keep having such a bright researcher in our team. We wish you good learning opportunities, good friends, and lots of success at school and research. Congratulations on your enrollment! Helping people. That is the one Team Surface is interested in, not just in getting our own gain. Team Surface website has been updated. Look at the News page
Dilemma we are willing to challenge
Which comes first?
Results or education. It is a huge dilemma in an academic and scientific survival race. Which should come first for a research team like us? We have to keep producing the outcome and want all our researchers to grow the most at the same time. Our team is always seeking for a way to accomplish the both.
Dr Shuji Nakamura
He is one of the people I respect the most. Dr Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics who changed the world, is a very good friend of mine, who cares about me a lot. Gallery page has been updated at Team Surface Website with his photo. It is an old picture before he got the one, which I believe is the one not so many people have.
Critical moments that do not stop
I am at work on Sunday night, prepping on a talk at an international web conference coming in a couple hours. Critical moments continue while our team is working on challenging the status quo in implant dentistry. A creative idea, viable strategy, and adept maneuvers are essential. That is what and how we can make a change.
Law of 1 out of 50
Sunday work. Another hypothesis failed. No worry. While you fail in hypothesis one by one, we are getting closer to the answer. Our lab has a law of 1 out of 50. We hit a right hypothesis out of 50 trials.
1 out of 50
Too many hypotheses I want to test. We test 1 per day. Most of them end up wrong. But it is 1 out of 50 that counts and changes the world. During developing a new titanium surface, we failed 40 times already and getting closing in.
UV-photo-activation reduces implant failure
Worth spreading? We updated the publication page on Team Surface website. What you see on the top is the paper I think is a milestone work demonstrating that UV-photo-activation significantly reduces the risk of implant failure. The authors compared implant factors and surgical protocols to see how they influenced the rate of early implant failure and found that whether the implant was photo-activated or not influenced the most!