UQ's School of Dentistry Associate Professor Ratilal Lalloo spoke to the Brisbane Times about an intervention that reduced Indigenous kids’ tooth decay rates in remote north Queensland.
A combination of preventive treatments reduced tooth decay and improved the quality of life for more than 200 Indigenous Australian children living in remote north Queensland, a study has found.
The UQ Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences is proud to announce that following an international recruitment process, Professor Saso Ivanovski has been appointed as the next Head of the UQ School of Dentistry.
Baby teeth, or milk teeth, act like lighthouses to guide the adult ones to their correct destination. A baby tooth will become wobbly and fall out because the adult tooth that follows pushes through to break down the roots of the baby tooth. Dr Arosha Weerakoon writes for The Conversation.
A technological advancement that has the potential to stimulate bone formation inside the human body has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.
An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take nine hours to present, but students in the UQ Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition present their thesis and its significance in dynamic and informative presentations of just three minutes in length.
PhD students from the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences will compete in the virtual Faculty Final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition on Thursday 6 August.
Professor Saso Ivanovski from UQ's School of Dentistry spoke with ABC News about how natural enzyme cleaning and such practices might need rethinking due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A technological advancement that may prove crucial in the long-term success of dental implants has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.
Saliva is one of our biggest foes in the COVID-19 pandemic, because of its role in spreading the virus. But it could be our friend too, because it potentially offers a way to diagnose the disease without using invasive nasal swabs.
Orthodontist and UQ alumnus Dr Nick Kotsomitis talks about how he has adapted the way he works to keep people smiling in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
