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Welcome Sierat

Sierat Khan is the newest member of the Oral and Craniofacial Health group, joining as part of his thesis for the Research Master in Clinical Epidemiology. With a BSc in Medicine, he aims to integrate knowledge from both medicine and epidemiology to become a well-rounded research physician. His research will focus on the development of …

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Welcome Yindan

We would like to warmly welcome Yindan amongst our little group! When prompted to tell us a little about herself, here’s what she said: “I began my internship in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery research group in September 2024 while completing my master’s thesis. I am a dentist with an MSc in Stomatology and am …

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Poverty Dynamics and Caries Status in Young Adolescents

Gisselle Carbajal Rodriguez, DMD, and co-authors have had their paper “Poverty Dynamics and Caries Status in Young Adolescents” published in the well established journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology (Impact factor: 3.383 (2020)). Their findings reveal that both poverty at birth and intermittent poverty throughout childhood and adolescence are associated with higher odds of dental caries …

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Scientific Dentistry United (SDU) article on our research

Now available online! Our very own dr. Lea Kragt had an opportunity to lay out the research performed in our group. The SDU magazine – Scientific Dentistry United – is a media platform for scientific associations focused on the dental care professional. Give it a read!

Bone health index in the assessment of bone health: The Generation R Study

Bone acquisition trajectory in the paediatric population is an important determinant of peak bone mass at young adulthood. Low peak bone mass is a risk factor for osteoporotic fractures later in life. Dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used to measure overall bone health, yet it is not used often due to certain limitations. That is …

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Agatha defense 15th February

Agatha will defend her thesis on Tuesday, February 15, 2023, titled: ‘From Disparity to Potential: Nutritional and Social Determinants of Children’s Oral Health’. The public defense will start exactly at 10.30 am. The doors are closed as soon as the public defense starts, late-comers can access the room via the fourth floor. Given the solemn …

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dr. Olja Grgic-Chavez

On 5th October 2022, Olja Grgic-Chavez successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Understanding determinants of pediatric developmental health”. Congratulations dr. Olja Grgic-Chavez!

PER-IADR 2022 Presentations

From September 15th – September 17th, our own Vid Prijatelj held an oral presentation titled “Commnon genetic background of hypodontia and third molar agenesis” at the 2022 PER-IADR Oral Health Research Congress in Marseille, France. Within he discussed how Recall-by-genotype, a special methodology in association studies based on genetic information, was applied to establish the …

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Caries Preventive Interventions and Oral Health Inequalities: A Scoping Review

Our very own Agatha van Meijeren-van Lunteren had her review article published at the JDR Clinical & Translational Research. Within she perused multiple public databases to establish which early-life interventions help caries prevention. Give it a read! Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23800844221109116 (https://doi.org/10.1177/23800844221109116) Congratulations Agatha!

Welcome Gisselle

Gisselle Carbajal joined us this May to start her PhD. She is a dentist and a specialist in Orthodontics. Additionally, she has a MSc in Dental Public Health. Her PhD project aims to investigate dental caries trajectories along the life-course from childhood to young adulthood, and the influence of biological, behavioural, psychological, social and environmental …

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