Chih-Kuang Chen

  • Professor and Chair, Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Office: (213) 740-1075

Expertise Summary

Expert in periodontal diseases and pathogens, bacterial biofilms, periodontology, and periodontics.

Expertise

  • microbes as causal factors in periodontal disease
  • molecular detection of periodontal pathogens
  • clonal diversity of periodontal pathogens
  • bacterial biofilms
  • periodontal disease - disease of the structures supporting the teeth, i.e., the gums, periodontal membrane and alveolar bone
  • periodontology
  • periodontics

Languages

  • Chinese