Current research projects include:

• Fluoride release of modern restorative resins.
• Evaluation of the roundness and smoothness of toothbrush bristles.
• The smoothness/roughness of different new resin restorative materials.
• The bond strength of various dentine bonding systems to dentine.
• Marginal leakage of different dental bonding systems.
• The effectiveness of mouthguards in the prevention of oro-facial injuries.
• Tear strength and shock absorption of different mouthguard materials.
• A survey of materials used by dental practitioners in South Africa.
• The effect of dentine bonding systems on dentine (Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope)
• Bacteraemia induced by dental procedures.
• Microleakage of bonded amalgams.
• Microleakage of glass ionomers used in the sandwich technique.
• Field emission microscopy of the effect of bonding agents.
• Indirect resin restorations.