It is my pleasure to announce that Alexander A. Spriggs has joined the Dental Materials Blog. Alexander has a BSc Major in Biology and, at the moment, is pursuing second degree in Biochemistry while awaiting Dentistry acceptance at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
In addition to his academic activities, Alexander owns and operates a construction company, Evolve Construction Services (http://www.evolveconstruction.ca/). It specializes in delivering environmental impact assessments along with construction services to suggest and execute a more environmentally sustainable project. He is conducting research for new solvents frequently used in the construction industry. The objective is to produce a specific solvent from non/low toxic materials that would eventually replace a current solvent on the market with a high toxicity.
Alexander is also doing a case study on Oral Health Care of Remote Populations: Nunavut, Canada, aimed at evaluating how isolated and remote communities suffer from dramatically different oral health standards when compared to more developed regions of the same country. Inclusive to this study was the aboriginal peoples of the remote province of Nunavut, Canada, and their understanding and application of modern medicine.
During 2007 Winter Semester, he presented an Industrial Microbiology Research Project for Dalhousie on the inception of Thymol into a breath mint to determine if the antimicrobial properties would be effective in improving oral health.
During the course of his education, Alexander has become competent in many laboratory techniques, such as:
- Agar plate preparation, inoculation, and experimentation on bacterial / fungal communities
- Bacterial staining / Slide preparation
- Recombinant DNA techniques
- Read and analyze most NMR print outs
- Microscope technique / operation
In addition, he is a skilled web designer, competent in web creation via HTML and PHP code. I’m sure the Dental Materials Blog will soon have a much nicer layout.
For Alexander’s full CV, you may contact him at a.spriggs@gmail.com
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