Gerald M. Kramer, a retired professor and former chairman of periodontology in the Boston University School of Dental Medicine, died on May 18 at a hospital in Boston after a long illness. |
Regeneration has many applications in dentistry, especially in periodontology for bone, connective tissue or gum grafting. |
More than 30 specialists in periodontology and dentists, as well as 4 universitary clinics took part in this research. |
His father was the chairman of periodontology at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine in Boston, where he also had a practice. |
Dr. Algus received his D. D. S. from University of Penn and studied periodontology at Columbia where he later taught. |
He is also the A. Lee Loomis professor of periodontology and interim chairman of the oral medicine, infection and immunity department there. |