An interview with Frederick Allen Rueggeberg

Frederick Allen Rueggeberg, Marcelo Giannini, Vanessa Cavali Gobbo

"Professor Frederick Allen Rueggeberg was an outstanding student where he graduated, with great scores received in all the courses he attended. He is currently Director of the Division of Dental Materials, Department of Restorative Sciences, and teacher of undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Dental College of Georgia, University of Augusta, Augusta, Georgia. His research field is the Restorative Dentistry, being the composites (composite resins, resin cements and other resin-based materials), lights and the polymerization reactions the topics most investigated by him. Dr. Rueggeberg is a notable researcher in these areas, received many awards and presents hundreds of articles published in high scientific impact journals. He has patents, book chapters and has been a speaker in several countries. In addition, he is reviewer and member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals in the dental field and has also provided scientific consulting services to several companies, such as, Ivoclar Vivadent, Kerr Corp., Bisco, 3M, LD Caulk, Ultradent, Discus Dental, GC America, Noritake, Kulzer, among others. During the 30 years working academically, he has had several students and researchers from all over the world, especially Brazilians, who did researches in his laboratories. This shows the strong cooperation and exchange activities that he has with dentistry worldwide. Regarding Brazilians, he has many friends, people he met in the early 2000s. He visited Brazil several times to participate in meetings, give lectures and do researches in many universities, being the most important trips with financial support from FAPESP, FAEPEXUNICAMP and CAPES. UNICAMP/SP, USP/SP, UPF/RS, UFC/CE, UNG/ SP, UNIOESTE/PR, UEPG/PR and UNIVAP/SP are examples of the universities he knows." Marcelo Giannini – Interview coordinator

How to cite: Rueggeberg FA, Giannini M, Gobbo VC. Interview with Frederick Allen Rueggeberg. J Clin Dent Res. 2019 Jan-Apr;16(1):6-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14436/2447-911x.16.1.006-009.int

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