Master’s Research Project Opportunities

Within the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery we offer a wealth of research opportunities for students enrolled at the Erasmus Medical Center as well as those of our filial institutions. Our frequent collaborators are Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA), University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Wageningen University & Research (WUR), and Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft).

With the ever expanding network of students, herein is a selection of some of the projects:

Associations Between Prenatal, Perinatal, and Early Childhood Vitamin D Status and Risk of Dental Caries at 6 Years (Navarro CLA, Grgic O, Trajanoska K, van der Tas JT, Rivadeneira F, Wolvius EB, Voortman T, Kragt L. Associations Between Prenatal, Perinatal, and Early Childhood Vitamin D Status and Risk of Dental Caries at 6 Years. J Nutr. 2021 Jul 1;151(7):1993-2000. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab075. PMID: 33982112; PMCID: PMC8245878.)

Impact of orthodontic treatment need and deviant occlusal traits on oral health-related quality of life in children: A cross-sectional study in the Generation R cohort (Nguee AAM, Ongkosuwito EM, Jaddoe VWV, Wolvius EB, Kragt L. Impact of orthodontic treatment need and deviant occlusal traits on oral health-related quality of life in children: A cross-sectional study in the Generation R cohort. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop. 2020 Jun;157(6):764-772.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajodo.2019.06.015. PMID: 32487306.)

Automated Bone Age Assessment based on DXA scans for a variety of ethnicities using Deep Transfer Learning (Supervised by dr. Gennady Roshchupkin)

Orthodontic treatment in early adolescence: Need vs Indeed (Supervised by dr. Bruna Dhamo)

Association between dental caries and bone mineral density: An observational and genetic study (Supervised by Vid Prijatelj)

The influence of orthodontic treatment on change in OHRQoL (Supervised by Agatha van Lunteren-van Meijer)

The relationship between BMI development and oral health (Supervised by Agatha van Lunteren-van Meijer)

The prevalence of dental trauma in adolescents (Supervised by dr. Bruna Dhamo)

Polygenic Risk Scores cross-validation for dental caries (Supervised by dr. Lea Kragt)

Facial risk factors for skin cancer (Supervised by dr. Gennady Roshchupkin)