Karl-Johan
M Söderholm, D.D.S., Ph.D
Professor
Joint Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UF College of
Engineering
Phone: 352.392.0575
E-mail: ksoderholm@dental.ufl.edu
DDS, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
MPhil, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
OdontDr, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
Main
Interests:
My research career
started around 1970 after practicing dentistry for several years.
Initially, my research focused on investigating dental amalgams
and their use. However, during the mid 70s I realized and foresaw
that the future of restorative dentistry would be to develop improved
dental composite resins and dental adhesives.
In 1977-1978, I worked at the Scandinavian Institute of Dental
Materials, Oslo, Norway, where my key responsibility was to run
the different testing programs for cements and elastomeric impression
materials available on the Scandinavian market. At the same time,
I continued working on different composite projects.
As time has passed, my research focused on degradation mechanisms
of different filler systems and degradation mechanisms of resins.
One such study was a NIDCR funded clinical study in which different
degradation mechanisms were evaluated clinically. Other projects
have dealt with different dentin adhesives and their technique
sensitivity. During the last few years a key research interest
has been to develop an understanding of the different variables
affecting light-cured dental composites. A goal with that project
is to develop systems that can be bulk-cured within a minimal
amount of time without inducing significant stress levels in the
surrounding tooth structures.
Selected
Publications:
Schwartz JI, Söderholm
KJM. Effects of filler size, water, and alcohol on hardness and
laboratory wear of dental composites. Acta Odontol Scand 62:102-106,
2004
Emami N, Söderholm
K-JM, Berglund L: Effect of light power density variations on
bulk curing properties of dental composites. J Dent 31:189-196,
2003.
Schulze KA, Zaman AA,
Söderholm KJ. Effect of filler fraction on strength, viscosity
and porosity of experimental compomer materials. J Dent 31:373-82,
2003.
Jacobsen T, Söderholm
KJ, Yang M, Watson TF. Effect of composition and complexity of
dentin-bonding agents on operator variability--analysis of gap
formation using confocal microscopy. Eur J Oral Sci 111:523-528,
2003.
Emami N, Söderholm
KJ. How light irradiance and curing time affect monomer conversion
in light-cured resin composites. Eur J Oral Sci 111:536-542, 2003.
Guelmann M, Bonnin S, Primosch RE, Söderholm K: Microleakage
and wall adaptation of conservative restorations: an in-vitro
study. Am J Dent 15:407-411, 2002
Söderholm K-JM,
Lambrechts P, Sarrett D, Abe Y, Yang MCK, Labella R, Yildiz E,
Willems G: Clinical wear performance of eight experimental dental
composites over three years determined by two measuring methods.
Eur J Oral Sci 109:273-281, 2001.
Dunn WJ and Söderholm
K-JM: Comparison of Shear and Flexural Bond Strength Tests Versus
Failure Modes for Three Dentin Bonding Systems Am J Dent 14:297-303,
2001.
Mondragon E and Söderholm
K-JM: Shear Strength of Dentin and Dentin Bonded Composites. J
Adhesive Dent 3:227-236, 2001.
