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Dr. Ying Yin Tsui, P.Eng.

The article Dental – Scientists Use Ultrasound To Regrow Teeth And Bone – A Broken Tooth Can Be Re-Grown In One Year said

Researchers from the University of Alberta believe they have found a method of regrowing teeth and possibly bone that have been broken. The scientists use a miniaturized low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) system-on-a-chip which offers a non-invasive and novel way to stimulate jaw growth and dental tissue healing.
 
Dr. Tarak El-Bialy from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Dr. Jie Chen and Dr. Ying Tsui from the Faculty of Engineering developed a tiny wireless ultrasound transducer device that comfortably fits inside the patient’s mouth while packed in biocompatible materials. The device is mounted on an orthodontic or “braces” bracket or even a plastic removable crown. The team also designed an energy sensor that will ensure the LIPUS power is reaching the target area of the teeth roots within the bone.

Ying Yin Tsui, Ph.D., P.Eng. is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta.
 
His current research projects include Laser Based Microfabrication and Nanofabrication such as Magnetically Guided Pulsed Laser Deposition, Pulsed Laser Deposition, Laser Induced Forward Transfer, Laser Fabricated Diffraction Gratings, and Molecular Dynamic Simulation of fs Laser Ablation, Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing, Laser Sensor Systems such as Quantum Dot Devices and Non-Contact Laser Sensing Technology, and High Intensity Laser Matter Interactions and plasma diagnostics such as Kev-MeV Particle Sources and High Energy Particle Detectors for Laboratory and Satellite.
 
Ying coauthored Dense and porous ZnO thin films produced by pulsed laser deposition, Effect of ambient air pressure on debris redeposition during laser ablation of glass, Influence of rapid thermal annealing on self-assembled quantum-dot superluminescent diodes, Interaction of 10 fs to 15 ns KrF laser pulses with metals, and Direct production of gratings on polymers using UV laser radiation. Read a full list of his publications!
 
He is a Professional Member of APEGGA, Senior Member of IEEE, and former Chair of Division of Plasma Physics, Canadian Association of Physicists.