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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5284
Email
joanne.choi@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Oral Rehabilitation
Qualifications
BDentTech (Hon) PGDipCDTech PhD
Research summary
Dental materials, dental technology, biomaterials, biomechanics, and craniofacial biology
Teaching

My main teaching responsibility is to teach into Bachelor of Dental Technology and Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Dental technology. I also give biomaterials, oral physiology, clinical lectures into Dental Surgery and Oral Health programme at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

I supervise research students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Research

I carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the mechanical properties and failure mechanisms of various restorative dental materials (various dental resins, metals and ceramics; CAD-CAM and 3D printed dental materials).

I also conduct research into developing new dental restorative materials to improve oral care and real-time measuring systems to evaluate physiologic changes (e.g. intraoral pH and temperature, temperature changes in restorative materials) or biomechanics of the materials in the oral cavity (e.g. pressure from dentures and other oral appliances). For my PhD, I developed and validated a wired sensor system to monitor intraoral pH and temperature for long-term periods, the results of which can be used in identifying and evaluating causal factors involved with dental wear.

I am part of the Biomechanics and Oral Implantology and Craniofacial Biology Programmes of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute.

Publications

Liu, X., Cameron, A. B., Haugli, K. H., Mougios, A. A., Heng, N. C. K., & Choi, J. J. E. (2026). Impact of progressive diamond bur wear on the trueness of subtractively-manufactured lithium disilicate crowns. Digital Dentistry Journal, 3(1), 100088. doi: 10.1016/j.ddj.2026.100088 Journal - Research Article

Chen, S., Cameron, A. B., Aarts, J. M., & Choi, J. J. E. (2026). Engineered micro-textures enhance adhesion in additively manufactured dental crowns. Digital Dentistry Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.ddj.2026.100085 Journal - Research Article

Badarneh, A., Choi, J. J. E., Ratnayake, J., Lyons, K., Waddell, J. N., Li, K. C., & Khurshid, Z. (2026). The evolution of high-strength ceramics: The role of microstructure and manufacturing. European Journal of General Dentistry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1055/s-0046-1815915 Journal - Research Other

Wang, X., Aarts, J. M., Heng, N. C. K., Cameron, A. B., & Choi, J. J. E. (2026). Influence of different post-washing parameters on the properties of additively-manufactured dental devices: A systematic review. Journal of Dentistry, 165, 106315. doi: 10.1016/j.jdent.2025.106315 Journal - Research Other

Cao, J., Liu, X., Cameron, A. B., Aarts, J., & Choi, J. J. E. (2025). Influence of different post-polymerization methods on the dimensional accuracy of additively manufactured dental crowns. Biomaterial Investigations in Dentistry, 12(1), 336-346. doi: 10.2340/biid.v12.45100 Journal - Research Article

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