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Interface Oral Health Science 2016 Innovative Research on Biosis–Abiosis Intelligent Interface

Interface Oral Health Science 2016

Keiichi Sasaki • Osamu Suzuki Nobuhiro Takahashi Editors

Interface Oral Health Science 2016 Innovative Research on Biosis–Abiosis Intelligent Interface

Editors Keiichi Sasaki Division of Advanced Prosthetic Dentistry Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry Sendai, Japan

Osamu Suzuki Division of Craniofacial Function Engineering Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry Sendai, Japan

Nobuhiro Takahashi Division of Oral Ecology & Biochemistry Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry Sendai, Japan

ISBN 978-981-10-1559-5 ISBN 978-981-10-1560-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1560-1

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Preface

The chapters in this book, which review the presentations at the 6th International Symposium for Interface Oral Health Science held January 18–19, 2016, at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, is being issued as a special publication. I am honored and pleased to deliver Interface Oral Health Science 2016 to our publisher. Interface Oral Health Science is a new concept in dentistry, established by the Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry in 2002, bas