Dental & Oral Health

Uri Zilberman received his DMD degree in 1983 from the Dental Faculty, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and his PhD degree in 2000 in Basic Science, Dental Anthropology. He specialized in Pediatric Dentistry from 1990 and has been treating children and adolescents for the last 30 years. He is the Head of the Pediatric Dental Unit at Barzilai Medical University Center. He is the Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba and at the Dental Faculty, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He teaches courses on Dental Morphology for first year Dental students and Pathophysiology of the Oral Cavity for fourth year Pharmacology students. He has published more than 50 research papers and chapters in Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Anthropology. His main interests are new dental procedures and devices for pediatric dentistry, hereditary disorders and their effect on tooth development, and the use of biomimetic materials in pediatric dentistry, like glass-ionomers cements. He has developed new dental procedures and a patented new dental device for pediatric dentistry.