The award for Best Scientific Review Article 2018 was given out today by the Swedish Dental Journal. We congratulate the winners!

We look forward to meeting our Swedish colleagues at our lecture or stand!

Are you interested in research and research communication? Do you like to communicate both in writing and orally? Do you collaborate well with others? If so, maybe the vacant position as Communication Advisor at NIOM could be of interest to you.

Welcome to a free webinar on December 5th 2018. Associate professor Marit Øilo will present “Dental Ceramics: Material choice and treatment options”.

NIOM is very pleased to participate at the Icelandic Dental Association Conference 2018 in Reykjavik on November 2 and 3.

NIOM is hosting the annual meeting of the Norwegian Society for Photobiology and Photomedicine (NOFFOF) on November 2nd, 2018.

NIOM stiller med stand på NTF Landsmøte og NorDental 2018. Kom innom oss for en prat!

At the annual dentistry standardisation meeting being held in Milan, Italy from September 16 to 21 there will be a strong NIOM contingent.

European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) will hold its 29th annual meeting at Maastricht, the Netherlands September 9-13, 2018. The theme this year will be “Materials for life”, aiming to discuss challenges the field of biomaterials is currently facing. NIOM engineer Bergitte P. Olderbø will hold a presentation titled “Effects of Nrf2 signaling on cytotoxicity induced […]

NIOM is present at the FDI World Dental Congress NIOM CEO, Professor Jon E. Dahl participates in the FDI World Dental Congress take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 5–8 September 2018.

The Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) kicks off its annual congress in Oslo today, which will last from August 22nd until the 24th. The Odontological Faculty, University Of Oslo, hosts the event. NIOM is represented with a stand and is there to promote research networking.

NIOM is host and local organizer of the sixth annual Northern Lights International Symposium which is taking place July 30-31st in Oslo. The main topics of the conference are bioactive materials and light transmission through ceramics and composites. The symposium aims to bring together almost 60 leading experts from 16 countries and over two days they will work through the topics through presentations and discussions, leading to a consensus that will be covered in a wide variety of post-conference publications.

NIOM Managing Director, Professor Jon E. Dahl and NIOM Engineer Solveig Uvsløkk will be representing NIOM at this year’s IADR conference, held in London from the 25th to 28th of July.

In the June issue of the Norwegian Dental Association’s Journal, Professor emeritus NJ Nils Jacobsen (now working at NIOM) has publised an article on how dental calculus in skeletal material contains valuable archaeological information

The webinar presentation for NIOM’s webinar from May 24th is available. Watch the presentation and fill out the form with your question to receive an in-depth answer!

    NIOM adds some fresh blood to its resources within mechanical engineering with Mr. Dimitri Alkarra.  Mr. Alkarra is a mechanical engineer that previously held the literal title as Technical Guru at Halmstad University’s “fab lab.” A fab lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering digital fabrication and is typically equipped with an array of flexible computer-controlled tools […]

NIOM senior scientists Ellen Bruzell and Håkon Valen will participate at the Scandinavian Society of Biomaterials’ 11th annual meeting in Gullmarsstrand, Sweden April 25-27 (ScSB 2018).

A short report from “Holmenkollen symposium 2018”.

Vasileios Kapralos returns to Norway. This time he is here to do a a four-year a doctoral research fellowship at the University of Oslo, with a supervisor at NIOM.

Tarja Tanner summarizes the six months she has spent at NIOM as a visiting scientist.

Maria Kassapidou is a Swedish clinician and researcher who has divided her time between NIOM where she has been a visiting researcher, the department of Prosthodontics and Dental Materials Science at the University of Gothenburg where she has been enrolled in a doctoral program, and the Institute for Postgraduate Dental Education in Jönköping where she is a clinical specialist in Prosthodontics.

“Recommended use of Fluoride” was NIOM’s first webinar in 2018. Participants from the Nordic countries and the rest of the world were present when Senior Scientist Aida Mulic covered topics such as fluorides for caries reduction, the most effective and recommended fluoride products, patients at high caries risk and dental erosive wear.

The Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT) is holding its 46th annual winter meeting at Beitostølen, Norway, January 25th-28th. The meeting is interdisciplinary. Four NIOM scientists and technical staff are participating with presentations of their research. Managing Director Jon E. Dahl, Senior Scientist Jan Tore Samuelsen, Chief Engineers Solveig Uvsløkk and Bergitte P. Olderbø […]

In this 20 min webinar NIOM Senior Scientist Aida Mulic will present the recommendations for use of fluoride to combat the most common oral diseases, dental caries and dental erosions.

Pawel Kallas and Krister Gjestvang Grønlien are PhD candidates from the University of Oslo who have recently come to NIOM to work on collaborative projects. Kallas is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomaterials, Faculty of Dentistry and Grønlien is a PhD candidate in the School of Pharmacy. Kallas’ project focuses on how nanostructured […]

The 6th of December marks 100 years of independence for Finland. The theme for the celebratory year is “Together,” showing that everyone – Finns and friends of Finns – is welcome to take part, just as creating and building the nation were joint efforts.

NIOM has recently welcomed two new guest researchers. Mervi Puska from Finland and Foteini Machla from Greece.

How do choices of restorative materials following pulpotomy in primary molars affect children who attended public oral health services? Battsetseg Tseveenjav has looked at this.

Det er ledig en fast stilling som teknisk medarbeider ved Nordisk institutt for odontologiske materialer (NIOM). Vi søker primært etter en tanntekniker, men annen relevant teknisk utdanning er også interessant. Søker bør ha utdannelse på bachelor-nivå; arbeidserfaring kan oppveie for manglende formell utdannelse.

Det er ledig fast 60 % stilling som forsker ved Nordisk Institutt for Odontologiske Materialer (NIOM). Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet har styrket NIOMs budsjett for videreutvikling av kompetansen innen klinisk materialforskning i samarbeid med de regionale odontologiske kompetansesentrene i Norge og med kliniske fagmiljøer i Norden. Stillingen er et ledd i å styrke denne kompetansen, og forskeren vil inngå i det samlede forskermiljøet ved NIOM.

NIOM has a stand at the Finnish annual meeting and dental trade fair, taking place right now, from Nov 23rd-25th. Make sure you swing by and sign up so you can stay up to date withresearch relevant to your clinical workday.

NIOM Scientist Frode Staxrud, DDS, was the presenter in a NIOM webinar held on October 24. He discussed the latest in dental adhesive techniques, as well as the do’s and don’t’s of dental bonding procedures.

From15th to the 17th of November, it is time for the annual meeting and Nordic trade fair for the dental industry, Riksstämman 2017 / Swedental. Dentists, dental technicians, researchers, dental hygienists and students gather at the Stockholm event to get acquainted with product news and the latest research. NIOM has a stand and we will […]

Users are simply cheated, charcoal tooth bleaching products simply does not bleach, according to NIOM Managing Director, Jon E. Dahl.