Bernd Kordaß

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Bernd Kordaß (born October 20, 1959 in Hamm ) is a German dentist and professor in Greifswald .

Life

Kordaß studied dentistry in Düsseldorf from 1978 to 1984. He then worked as a research assistant in the Department of Dental Prosthetics and Defect Prosthetics (Dir .: H. Böttger), West German Jaw Clinic , University of Düsseldorf. His doctorate as Dr. med. dent. he passed in 1986. From 1990 Bernd Kordaß was senior physician at the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics (Dir .: U. Stüttgen), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf . His habilitation in 1994 dealt with the topic: “Coupling of magnetic resonance imaging of the temporomandibular joint with computer-aided recordings of the condylar tract - new aspects for function-oriented temporomandibular joint diagnosis and therapy”. In 1996 he was appointed to the University of Greifswald , where he was appointed professor and head of the department for dental propaedeutics / community dentistry in 1997.

science

In research, Bernd Kordaß has been working on functional analysis and therapy in dentistry since his employment at the University of Düsseldorf. In 1992 he received the university research award of the German Dental Association and in 1993 the Kempten advancement award of the working group for functional teaching together with Alfons Hugger.

When he became a professor at the University of Greifswald, he stepped up his activities in the field of digital technologies in the field of dentistry. In 1999 Bernd Kordaß founded the DGZMK working group for "Applied computer science in dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine" and chaired it. The working group of the German Society for Computer- Aided Dentistry DGCZ was later affiliated as the IT section and still exists today. The scientific work was and is shaped by the digital (dental) occlusion of teeth in computer systems. Kordaß and his colleague Christian Gärtner described the technology of a virtual articulator back in 1999, and thus well before it was implemented in dental CAD / CAM systems . The concept consisted of a combination of a 3D scanner for digitizing jaw models and an electronic jaw movement registration system. The innovation consisted in the fact that for the first time the real movements of a person's jaw could be displayed virtually on the computer, allowing completely new perspectives and the mechanical limitations of conventional articulators to be overcome. As was also stated in a review article, they were the first to describe and implement this technology and also to provide an achievable accuracy value.

With the establishment and management of the working group "Chewing function and oral physiology" in the German Society for Functional Diagnostics and Therapy ( DGFDT ) in 2007 , groundwork was prepared. Due to the use of instrumental procedures, a consensus process was opened in the specialist society DGFDT due to the lack of international evidence in particular, which later resulted in an S2k guideline “Instrumental dental functional analysis”. In addition to this, Hugger and Kordaß have published the “Handbook of instrumental functional analysis and functional occlusion”.

Teaching

In addition to teaching dental propaedeutics with a focus on community dentistry, Bernd Kordaß started early in 1999 as part of the Bologna Process to establish postgraduate master's courses in dentistry at a state university.

Such master’s courses can also be found in the “Recommendations for the further development of dentistry at universities in Germany” of the Science Council of January 28, 2005: “In addition to the previous forms of practice-related further education, the Science Council recommends that universities establish new formalized further education courses [...] , which are completed with a university master’s degree (e.g. for implantology, periodontology, gerostomatology, etc.). “With postgraduate master’s courses, dentistry benefits decisively from the Bologna process and the opportunities it offers. In contrast to medicine, there has not yet been a strong differentiation into specialists in dentistry, but there is nevertheless a trend towards more specialization.

Since 2004, the University of Greifswald has been offering postgraduate, part-time master’s courses leading to an M.Sc. in dentistry - under the direction of Kordaß. It started with the master’s degree in “Dental functional analysis and therapy”. From 2009 further master’s courses followed in “Dental Prosthetics”, “Clinical Dental CAD / CAM”, “Dental Aesthetics and Function”, “Pediatric Dentistry” (on the initiative of Christian Splieth). Since 2016 there has also been a master’s degree in “Digital Dental Technology”, which, with the possibilities of the State University Act Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, also opens up access for professionally qualified applicants and thus enables several professional groups in dentistry to study together.

editor

  • with Alfons Hugger: “Handbook of instrumental functional analysis and functional occlusion. Scientific evidence and clinical approach. “Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86867-378-4
  • with Hartmut Böhme, Beate Slominski: “The dental. Fascination of the oral system in science and culture. “Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86867-297-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the Vita
  2. ↑ Kordass B, Gärtner C. 1999. Matching digitized chewing surfaces and occlusal movement recordings. Dtsch Zahnarztl Z: 399–403.
  3. ↑ Maestre-Ferrin L, Romero-Millan J, Penarrocha-Oltra D, Penarrocha-Diago M. 2012. Virtual articulator for the analysis of dental occlusion: An update. Medicina Oral Patología Oral y Cirugia Bucal: 160-163.
  4. ↑ gardeners C, Kordaß B. 2003. The virtual articulator: development and evaluation. International journal of computerized dentistry 6: 11-24.
  5. ↑ S2k guideline "Instrumental dental functional analysis" of the DGZMK Link to the guideline on the DGFDT website , AWMF register number: 083-017
  6. ↑ “Handbook of instrumental functional analysis and functional occlusion. Scientific evidence and clinical approach. “Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86867-378-4
  7. ^ Page 51 of the recommendations for the further development of dentistry at universities in Germany from January 28, 2005
  8. ↑ LHG MV § 31 website state law MV
  9. ↑ Website of the dental master’s courses at the University of Greifswald
personal data
SURNAME Kordaß, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm