SELECTION OF VICE-CHANCELLOR. An overwhelming majority of voters accepted the policy group’s proposal regarding Sahlgrenska Academy’s representation in the consultative assembly. As such, the 14 people who will represent the Academy in the process of appointing a new vice-chancellor have been selected. Voter turnout was 27 percent among teachers and just over 22 percent among other staff categories. Of the 173 teachers who voted, 160 voted for the policy group’s…
Hamza and Manar—two Syrian dentists supplementing their qualifications at the Institute of Odontology
EDUCATION. Almost all the foreign dentists who recently began their supplementary training at Sahlgrenska Academy hail from Syria. Meet Hamza and Manar, two Syrian dentists eager to be allowed to start work in Sweden. Hamza Kayssar and Manar Yousef first met when they recently became classmates at Gothenburg’s Institute of Odontology. Both are dentists educated in Syria, and both left their homeland just over two years ago. Now here in…
Award for extensive, interdisciplinary article on the ordinary mucous membrane in the mouth
AWARD. In an interdisciplinary collaboration between medicine and odontology, researchers were able to analyze and present data collected over the last twenty years at both the Oral Medicine and Pathology section and the Endocrinology section. The result is the largest epidemiological study of the relationship between OLP and thyroid disease, and the article has now been recognized with an award by a leading journal in oral medicine. The article is…
International clinical study on reconstructive surgical therapy of periimplantitis to start
CONTRIBUTION. In an international competition, researchers at the Institute of Odontology have received the first Large Clinical Grant, awarded by the Osteology Foundation in Switzerland. Headed by Tord Berglundh, researchers at six European research centers will collaborate to evaluate the significance of using bone replacement material in patients operated on for bone defects caused by peri-implantitis. Periodontitis (gum disease) is a bacterially induced inflammation of the supporting structures of the…
International clinical study on reconstructive surgical therapy of periimplantitis to start
CONTRIBUTION. In an international competition, researchers at the Institute of Odontology have received the first Large Clinical Grant, awarded by the Osteology Foundation in Switzerland. Headed by Tord Berglundh, researchers at six European research centers will collaborate to evaluate the significance of using bone replacement material in patients operated on for bone defects caused by peri-implantitis. Periodontitis (gum disease) is a bacterially induced inflammation of the supporting structures of the…