Nuno Cruz , the coordinator of the Dental Medicine Service at Hospital da Luz Coimbra , concluded, on September this year, his doctorate degree in Health Sciences at the International University of Catalonia (Barcelona). His thesis – entitled “Influence of custom made titanium meshes surface on bone regeneration using calcium phosphates” – gained the unanimous approval of the doctorate jury, with praise and distinction. Nuno Cruz is the current president of the Portuguese Society of Implantology and Osteointegration. In the papers included in his doctorate thesis, some of which already published, he researched the influence of the surface of custom-made titanium meshes in osteo regeneration with calcium phosphates . In the photo above , Nuno Cruz (in the centre), with the jury: on the left, Jorge Pereira and Eugenio Velasco Ortega (who presided the jury) and, on the right, José Lopez and Andreu Puigdollers Perez.
