Richard J. Miron
Dr. Richard Miron is currently lead educator and researcher at Advanced PRF Education and an adjunct visiting faculty in the Department of Periodontology at the University of Bern, Switzerland where he completed his PhD studies. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and lectures internationally on many topics relating to growth factors, bone biomaterials and guided bone regeneration. For the past 8 years, Dr. Miron has been recognized by Dentistry Today as being one of the top 100 CE providers in the US and the youngest ever to make the list. He is also the top-ranked researcher on platelet-rich fibrin therapy as per Expertscape independent review. He has been recently awarded many international prizes in dentistry and is widely considered as one of the top contributors to implant dentistry having won the ITI André Schroeder Research Prize, the IADR Young Investigator of the Year in the field of implant dentistry as well as the IADR Socransky Research award in the field of periodontology (2020). He has written 8 textbooks that are widely distributed in regenerative dentistry including his best-sellers “Next Generation Biomaterials for Bone and Periodontal Regeneration” (2019), “Understanding Platelet Rich Fibrin” (2021) and "Modern Implant Dentistry" (2023).
Articles
Feature Article
This article provides the biological background and scientific rationale for why platelet concentrates speed wound healing, discusses the evolution of platelet concentrates from Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) to Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF), highlights advantages of horizontal versus fixed-angle centrifugation and gives an update on Bio-Heat technology and the ability to extend the working properties of PRF from 2-3 weeks to 4-6 months.