Tagged with School of Dentistry and Oral Health

Griffith University’s Professor Marco A. Peres has given a presentation at the launch of The Lancet Series on Oral Health, of which he was an author.

Oral health has been isolated from traditional healthcare and health policy for too long, despite the major global public health burden of oral diseases, according to a Lancet Series on Oral Health, published today in The Lancet.

Griffith University Emeritus Professor Newell Johnson has received the 2019 Global Oral Health Research Award.

When Nelson Bayer graduates this year with a Bachelor of Dentistry and Oral Health, it will be the culmination of a hard fought and long path to success.

The complications and high costs associated with dental implants could be a thing of the past as Griffith research aims to reduce the associated risks of infection using new cutting edge nanotechnology.

Simply injecting more federal funding into treating dental disease is not the solution to reduce patient waiting lists. A Griffith University report has called for better education on oral health so that people assume more responsibility for their own oral health.

Artificial bone is the answer to less painful dental implants, a Griffith study says.