Understanding Periodontal Research

Evidence-based periodontology.- Ethical Considerations in Periodontal Research.- Overview of Clinical Research Design Architecture.- The Randomized Clinical Trials Design.- Biases in periodontal research.- Measurement reliability in periodontal research.- Compliance considerations in clinical trial design.- Performing systematic reviews and meta-analyses.- Statistical versus clinical significance in periodontal research.- Clinical practice guidelines in periodontology.- Multilevel analysis: site-tooth-patient level.- Contemporary Concepts in the Diagnosis of Periodontal Disease.- A guide to diagnostic accuracy studies in periodontology.- Clinical trials principles for evaluation of antimicrobial drugs in periodontal disease treatment.- The Hawthorne effect.- Clinical trials principles for evaluation of antimalodour products.- Specific issues in clinical trials on the evaluation of genetic factors in the pathology of periodontal disease.- Indices currently used in periodontal research.- Specific issues in epidemiological studies of periodontal disease.- Assessing confounding and effect modification in research involving periodontal disease and systemic diseases.- Animal models in periodontal research.

Dr. Dumitrescu is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine University of Tromsø, Norway. She received her Philosophiate Doctor in Medical Sciences degree in 1997 at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" in Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Dumitrescu also engaged in postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Odontology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and the University of Bristol, in Bristol, England. She has won the Special Jury Prix JPIO (Journal de Parodontologie & D'Implantologie Orale) at the SFPIO (Société Francaise de Parodontologie et d'Implantologie Orale) National Congress Bordeaux, France 16-18.06.2005 for the study "Analysis of pain experienced during periodontal probing in smokers" She is a member of the Romanian College of Dentists and the Scandinavian Society of Periodontology.