{"id":408,"date":"2022-10-24T15:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/?p=408"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:16:58","slug":"408-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/408-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of Restorative Dentistry is pleased to announce the appointment of prosthodontist Dr. Francisco Azpiazu as a new full-time faculty member and assistant professor.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dr. Azpiazu is originally from Nicaragua. His education includes a dental surgery degree from the Autonomous University of Nicaragua, a two-year certificate in advanced education in general dentistry from the University of Connecticut, a certificate in prosthodontics and a master of science from Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, he works as an assistant professor at the Dr. Gerard Niznick College of Dentistry, and the Centre for Community Oral Health. His duties include supervising the clinical session of third- and fourth-year dental students, co-ordinating the fixed prosthodontics course and treating geriatric patients at multiple senior home care facilities across Winnipeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Azpiazu created a digital teeth library for implant planning and CAD-CAM fabrication of dental prostheses. Additionally, his clinical work and research has been published in peer-reviewed prosthodontic and dental technology journals. His research interests include using CAD-CAM technologies and dental implants to manage complex oral rehabilitations, and studying the interaction of contemporary CAD-CAM materials with dental materials commonly used in the dental clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Restorative Dentistry is pleased to announce the appointment of prosthodontist Dr. Francisco Azpiazu as a new full-time faculty member and assistant professor. Dr. Azpiazu is originally from Nicaragua. His education includes a dental surgery degree from the Autonomous University of Nicaragua, a two-year certificate in advanced education in general dentistry from the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}