• Contact Information
• Educational and Professional Background
• Research/Creative Activities
• Patient Care Activities
• Courses Taught
• Professional Memberships and Activities
• Recent Publications

Educational and Professional Background

DDS School of Dentistry, Kyushu University

PhD Graduate School, Division of Dental Science, Kyushu University

Dr. Takahiro Ogawa is currently an Assistant Professor in Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology and Division of Advanced Prosthodontics at UCLA. He is also involved in maxillofacial prosthetics. Dr. Ogawa directs translational research program on bone biology and bone engineering, including molecular mechanism of bone-titanium integration, gene therapy and osteoblastic differentiation control. He has over 130 article and abstract publications and presented his work at over 70 national and international leading scientific meetings. He work on bone engineering and biomaterial sciences has been recognized nation- and world-wide and has been awarded by many academies and institutions.

Research/Creative Activities

Molecular genetic implant research, bone regeneration.

Patient Activities

Maxillofacial prosthetics, Prosthontics, Implant prosthodontics.

Courses taught

Removable partial denture, Immediate denture

Professional memberships and activities:

International Association for Dental Research (IADR)
Director, IADR Prosthodontic Research Group
Academy of Prosthodontics

Recent Publications

Ogawa T, Ozawa S, Shih JH, Ryu KH, Sukotjo C, Yang JM, Nishimura I. Biomechanical evaluation of implants having different surface topographies. J Dent Res, 79:1857-1863, 2000.

Ozawa S, Ogawa T, Iida K, Sukotjo C, Hasegawa H, Nishimura RD, Nishimura I. Ovariectomy hinders early establishment of bone-implant integration: Histomorphometric, biomechanical, and molecular analyses. Bone, 30:137-43, 2002.

Sukotjo C, Abanmy AA, Ogawa T. Nishimura I. Molecular cloning of wound inducible transcript (wit 3.0) differentially expressed in edentulous oral mucosa undergoing tooth extraction wound-healing. J Dent Res, 81:229-235, 2002.

Ogawa T, Sukotjo C, Nishimura I. Modulated bone matrix-related gene expression is associated with differences in interfacial strength of different implant surface roughness. J Prosthodont, 11:241-7, 2002.

Ogawa T, Nishimura I. Different bone integration profiles of turned and acid-etched implants associated with modulated expression of extracellular matrix genes. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants, 18:200-10, 2003.

Sukotjo C, Lin A, Song K, Ogawa T, Wu B, Nishimura I. Oral fibroblast expression of wound inducible transcript-3.0 (wit3.0) accelerates the collagen gel contraction in vitro. J Biol Chem, 278(51):51527-34, 2003.