Address
Room: 29.1
UNMC College of Dentistry
40th and Holdrege
Box 830740
Lincoln, NE 68583-0740

Adult Restorative Dentistry Department
Biomaterials Group

Telephone: (402) 472-1261
Fax: (402) 472-5290
Email: mbeatty@unmc.edu  

Education:

• B.S., Purdue University, 1974
• D.D.S., University of Iowa, 1981
• M.S.E., Purdue Univeristy, 1987
• M.S., Indiana University, 1991
• M.S.D., Indiana University, 1991
• NIH Dentist Scientist 1985-1990

• ARD 326 Dental Materials for Dental Hygiene
• ARD 531 Dental Materials
• OBIO 831 Dental Biomaterials
• OBIO 851 Advanced Dental Biomaterials

• Development of maxillofacial prosthetic materials
• Cartilage tissue engineering
• FEM applications to adhesives, hard and soft tissues
• TMJ disc mechanics

• Beatty MW, Ojha AK, Cook JL, Alberts LR, Mahanna GK, Iwasaki LR, Nickel JC. Small intestinal submucosa versus salt-extracted PGA-PLLA: a comparison of neo-cartilage formed in two scaffold materials. Tissue Engineering
• Beatty MW, Nickel JC, Iwasaki LR, Leiker M. Mechanical response of the porcine TMJ disc to an impact event and repeated tensile loading. Journal of Orofacial Pain
• Sensat ML, Brackett WW, Meinberg T, Beatty MW. Clinical evaluation of two adhesive resin composite cements for suppression of dentinal cold sensitivity. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
• Beatty MW, Bruno MJ, Iwasaki LR, Nickel JC. Strain rate-dependent orthotropic properties of the pristine and impulsively loaded porcine temporomandibular joint disc. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 57:25-34, 2001.
• Nickel JC, Iwasaki LR, Feely DE, Stormberg KD, Beatty MW. The effect of disc thickness and trauma on disc surface friction in the porcine temporomandibular joint. Archives of Oral Biology 46:155-62, 2001.
• Nickel, J.C., Iwasaki, L.R., Beatty, M.W. and Marx, D.B. Laboratory Stresses and Tractional Forces on the TMJ Disc Surface. Journal of Dental Research, 83:650-4, 2004.
• Beatty MW, Nickel JC, Iwasaki LR, Leiker M. Mechanical response of the porcine TMJ disc to an impact event and repeated tensile loading. Journal of Orofacial Pain, 17:160-6, 2003.
• Iwasaki, L.R., Beatty, M.W., Randall, C.J. and Nickel, J.C. Clinical ligation forces and intraoral friction during sliding on a stainless steel archwire. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 123:408-15, 2003.
• Beatty MW, Ojha AK, Cook JL, Alberts LR, Mahanna GK, Iwasaki LR, Nickel JC. Small intestinal submucosa versus salt-extracted PGA-PLLA: a comparison of neo-cartilage formed in two scaffold materials. Tissue Engineering, 8:955-68, 2002.
• Sensat ML, Brackett WW, Meinberg T, Beatty MW. Clinical evaluation of two adhesive resin composite cements for suppression of dentinal cold sensitivity. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, 88:50-3, 2002.
• Beatty MW, Bruno MJ, Iwasaki LR, Nickel JC. Strain rate-dependent orthotropic properties of the pristine and impulsively loaded porcine temporomandibular joint disc. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 57:25-34, 2001.
• Nickel JC, Iwasaki LR, Feely DE, Stormberg KD, Beatty MW. The effect of disc thickness and trauma on disc surface friction in the porcine temporomandibular joint. Archives of Oral Biology 46:155-62, 2001.