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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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 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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Op het congres Circle of life van #QualityPracticeACTA Dental Education heeft Lea Kragt ons onderzoek in de Generation R Study naar het effect van verschillende voedingsaspecten op de gezondheid van het #kindergebit gepresenteerd. Benieuwd naar het onderzoek? Vind de samenvatting in de bijgevoegde PDF óf binnenkort te lezen in QP Tandheelkunde. https://www.ntvt.nl/tijdschrift/editie/artikel/t/caries-bij-schisispatienten-oorzaak-prevalentie-preventie-en-behandeling #gezondkindergebit#oralhealthprevention#healthystart#voeding#mondgezondheid

Li Chen started her PhD in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery research group in November, 2022. She is a dentist, specializing primarily in Implantology. She also has a MSc in Stomatology. Her PhD theme is “Alterations of ectodermal structures leading to dental and craniofacial manifestations”, which aims to investigate the association between craniofacial morphology and …

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

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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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!

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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