Physician Profile

Patchanee Rungruanganunt, D.D.S., M.S.D.

Dr.Rungruanganunt is board certified in Prosthodontics and maintains a practice limited to prosthodontics. She is the course director of fixed prosthodontics for dental students at University of Connecticut Health Center. She is actively involved in teaching both dental students and residents in dental implantology, fixed prosthodontics and removable prosthodontics. In 2006, she received the Claude R. Baker Teaching Award from the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics. Recently she received the faculty development award from the UConn School of Dental Medicine. Her research interests are related to the use of dental ceramics.

Appointment

• Assistant Clinical Professor, Reconstructive Sciences, UConn School of Dental Medicine

Specialty

• Prosthodontics

Subspecialty

• Dental implants
• Allceramic restoration

Certification
American Board of Prosthodontics

Education
D.D.S., Chiang Mai University, Thailand
M.S.D., Indiana University

Residency
Prosthodontic residency, Prosthodontic program, Dental School, Indiana University

Fellowship
American College of Prosthodontists

Awards

• Lester Furnas Graduate Prosthodontics Award and The John F. Johnston Society Scholarship Award for academic, technical, and clinical proficiency
• The Claude R. Baker Teaching award for excellence in the teaching of predoctoral fixed prosthodontics
• Faculty development award

Research Interests

Clinical Research

• Clinical outcome of Allceramic restoration (CAD-CAM).

Basic Science Research

• Fatigue test of dental ceramic.
• Dental ceramic related to dental implants.