Winthrop Prof. Paul Abbott

Director of Postgraduate Studies & Research

School of Dentistryand the

Oral Health Centre of WA

School of Dentistry

1. Dental Public Health2. Dental Traumatology3. Education & Assessment4. Simulation Teaching5. Endodontics6. Materials Science

Main Research Fields

7. Periodontics8. Oral Cancer9. Oral Medicine & Oral Pathology10. Orthodontics11. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery12. Tissue Regeneration and

Auto-transplantation

School of Dentistry

1. ICHR2. University of North Carolina3. School of Population Health4. University of Michigan5. Kerman University, Iran6. School of Mechanical

Engineering

Some Current Collaborations

7. University of Queensland8. Fremantle Hospital9. Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital10. University of Peradeniya, Sri

Lanka11. University of Melbourne12. Centre for Orthopaedic Research

University of Bristol University of Melbourne Curtin University Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health Western Australian Cancer Registry Ruah Community Services

Oral Health Group – Recent Collaborations

Prof. Linda

Slack-Smith

Oral Health Group – Some Recent Papers1. Slack-Smith L, Ree M and Leonard H (accepted 30/10/10) Oral health and children with an intellectual disability: A

focus group study of parent issues and perceptions. Journal of Disability and Oral Health.

2. Colvin L, Slack-Smith L, Stanley F, Bower C (accepted 7/5/10) Linking a pharmaceutical claims database with a birth defects registry to investigate birth defect rates of suspected teratogens. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.

3. Frydrych A, Parsons R, Threlfall T, Austin N, Davies G, Booth D, Slack-Smith L. (accepted 28/3/10) Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma survival by biopsy type: a cancer registry study. Australian Dental Journal.

4. Wilkins A, Leonard H, Jacoby P, MacKinnon E, Clohessy P, Foroughi S, Slack-Smith L. Evaluation of the processes of family-centred care for young children with intellectual disability in Western Australia. Child: Care, Health & Development 36(5):709–718.

5. Lette H, Tursan d’Espaignet E, Slack-Smith L, Hunt K, Nannup J (2009) Indigenous mothers’ aspirations for their children in Perth, Western Australia: the value of education and schooling. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 38:65-73.

6. Slack-Smith L, Lange A, Paley G, O’Grady M, French D, Short L (2010) Oral health and access to dental care: a qualitative investigation among older people in the community Gerodontology 27(2):1-4-113.

7. Paley G, Slack-Smith L, O’Grady M. Oral health care issues in aged care facilities in Western Australia: Resident and family caregiver views Gerodontology 2009; 26(2):97-104.

8. Slack-Smith L, Colvin L, Leonard H, Kilpatrick N, Bower C, Messer L (2009) Factors associated with dental admissions for children aged under five years in Western Australia. Archives of Disease in Childhood; 94(7):517-523.

9. Colvin L, Slack-Smith L, Stanley F, Bower C (2008) Pharmacovigilance in pregnancy using population-based linked datasets. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 18(3):211-225.  

10. Wood L, France K , Hunt K, Eades S, Slack-Smith L (2008) Indigenous women and smoking during pregnancy: knowledge, cultural contexts and barriers to cessation. Social Science & Medicine 66(11):2378-2389.

Prof. Linda

Slack-Smith

Oral Health Group – Some Recent Papers

Prof. Linda

Slack-Smith

Aged Care and access to care Children’s oral health and admissions

to hospital Disability and access to care Birth defects Oral cancer Indigenous women and smoking

during pregnancy Etc.

Practice profile and demographics of patients treated at the Oral Health Centre of

Western Australia (OHCWA): a descriptive study.

Assoc. Prof. Erica YatesSchool of Dentistry

Assoc. Prof. David Preen and Dr Kristjana Einarsdottir School of Population Health

The attitude of novice clinicians to Virtual Reality Based Technology

in dental pre-clinical training

Assoc. Prof. Erica YatesDr Michael Khoury

Towards Defining Dental Drilling Competence

1. A Study of Bone Drilling Technique

2. A Study of Cues and Factors in Bone Drilling

Ioanna Ioannou, Edmund Kazmierczak, Linda Stern, Andrew Smith, Lisa Wise, Bruce Field

Current Oral Surgery Research

Projects Williamson R.A. Surgical management of bisphosphonate induced osteonecrosis of the jaws. Int J Oral & Maxillofac Surg. 2009.

Reference

Williamson RA. An experimental study of the use of hyperbaric oxygen to reduce the side effects of radiation treatment for malignant disease. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2007; 36: 533 540.

Salivary Gland Bone

HBO used

Frydrych AM, Parsons R, Threlfall T, Austin N, Davies GR, Booth D, Slack-Smith LM.

Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma survival by biopsy type: a cancer registry study. Aust Dent J 2010.

Investigated different methods of taking biopsies of SCC’s Showed the biopsy type does not affect 5-year survival or

recurrence of Stage I and II oral SCC.

Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology Group

Oral Cancer

Use of T-Scan and Periotest for Cases of Trauma From Occlusion

• To Assess Strong Occlusal contacts in TFO Cases

• Assess changes in tooth mobility

• Assess occlusal force changes and tooth mobility before and after using occlusal splints

Assoc. Prof. Julio Rincon

Epithelial Rests of Malassez and Periodontal Regeneration

What is Periodontal Regeneration ?Restoration of damaged tissues to their original form and functionand requires regeneration of connective tissues through the Formation of new bone, new cementum and new periodontal ligament. What about ERM? Rincon et al. The ERM, a Role of ERM in Periodontal Regeneration? J Perio Res 2006

• Tissue Engineering in Periodontal Defects

• Expression of Cementum Proteins by ERM