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Stephen C. Bayne

Stephen C. Bayne MS, PhD

Dentistry, Prosthodontics
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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Dr. Bayne is Professor and Section Head of Biomaterials in the Department of Operative Dentistry at the UNC School of Dentistry. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biological Materials from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and then taught at the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry. He joined UNC in 1984. He has been recognized with 20 Teacher Excellence Awards from UNC dental classes, the first SRG Mentor-of-the-Year Award, and the prestigious Richard Hunt Award teaching award.

Dr. Bayne has been honored with memberships in the Academy of Restorative Dentistry and Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the National Dental Honor Society. These are significant in that Dr. Bayne is in a select group of non-dentists who are part of these special organizations. He was recently bestowed the Award of Merit from the Academy of Dentistry International. He was elected to Honorary Alumni Membership in 2000 for the UNC School of Dentistry. He was presented the Lecturer-of-the-Year Award by the Greater New York Society of Prosthodontics in 2000. He recently received the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Carleton College. He just received the 2004-2006 UNC Distinguished Professor of Teaching Excellence. He recently received the 2004 Distinguished Professor of Teaching Excellence Award from UNC, the 2005 Academy of Operative Dentistry Hollenback Prize, and the 2005 ADEA/Smith-Kline-Glaxo/Sensodyne Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for Dental School Faculty.

He is past-President of the Academy of Dental Materials and served on the Executive Committee for 14 years. He serves on numerous ADA committees. He has been Chair of the ADA Task Force on Posterior Composites. He is a Past-President of the Dental Materials Group of the IADR. He is a Past-President of the AADR and served on its Board of Directors for 9 years. He President-Elect for the IADR and will cycle to President in 2006. He is a reviewer for 25 journals, on the editorial review board of 8 journals, and associate editor of 4 journals.

He is involved in funded clinical research trials involving posterior composites, CAD/CAM Cerec inlays, bonded Class V restorations, and bleaching materials. His research has been published in 43 chapters in several books, 99 journal articles, and 192 abstra