Abstract
On July 12–17, 1987, a unique dental conference, entitled “The Applications of Modern Engineering Methods to the Design and Fabrication of Dental Prostheses and Restorations” was held in Henniker, New Hampshire, USA. This conference was sponsored by the Engineering Foundation with cosponsorship by the United States Army Institute for Dental Research. The objective of the conference was to foster an interchange of ideas among dental researchers, engineers, academicians, and representatives from industry on how recent engineering methods could be applied to advance dental research related to the design and construction of dental prostheses and restorations. Sessions were held on finite element analysis (FEA), computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Weibull statistics, fracture mechanics, and reliability analysis. The unifying theme was the utilization of existing analytical solutions and software to analyze stress states and optimum design configurations in dental prostheses such that the risk of premature failure could be ascertained. The interdisciplinary nature of the conference created a need for tutorial lectures as well as state-of-the-art presentations.
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