IADR PRESS RELEASES

May 11, 2020, Alexandria, Va., USA—The Journal of Dental Research published today the results of a study that demonstrated that community water fluoridation is not associated with increased risk of osteosarcoma. 

More than sixty percent of the U.S. population have access to community water fluoridation, considered to be one of the most important public health policies of the twentieth century due to its reduction of tooth decay at the population level. Fluoride ingestion has been suggested as a possible risk factor for osteosarcoma based on a 1990 animal study. Six of the seven subsequent case-control studies in humans reported that fluoride in drinking water was not associated with osteosarcoma.

This study assessed whether living in a fluoridated community was a risk factor for osteosarcoma by performing a secondary data analysis using data collected from two separate, but linked studies. Patients for both Phase 1 and Phase 2 were selected from U.S. hospitals using a hospital-based matched case-control study design. For both phases, cases were patients diagnosed with osteosarcoma and controls were patients diagnosed with other bone tumors or non-neoplastic conditions. 

Alexandria, Va., USA, May 6, 2020 – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Douglas Berkey, University of Colorado, Aurora, USA as the 2020 recipient of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Geriatric Oral Research.

Berkey is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine where he has served as the Chair of the Department of Applied Dentistry and as a faculty member for 28 years. While at CU, he was awarded the Rocky Mountain Study Club Professor of the Year. He is the past Chairman and continues to serve on the Board of Trustees for Delta Dental of Colorado and is also the Editor-in-Chief of Dental Abstracts, an internationally respected oral health journal. He is a member of the American Dental Association’s National Elder Care Advisory Committee and was a past ADA delegate to the Joint Commission.

Alexandria, Va., USA, May 6, 2020 – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Anne George, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, as the 2020 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award in Biological Mineralization Basic Research.

George is the Dr. Allan G. Brodie Endowed Professor and Professor of Oral Biology.  She leads a team of research specialists and mentors students in the Brodie Tooth Development Genetics & Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory at the UIC College of Dentistry.

Alexandria, Va., USA, May 6, 2020 – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Rebecca Harris, University of Liverpool, England, as the 2020 recipient of the Distinguished Scientists Award in Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research.

Harris is Professor and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health and also Dean of the Institute of Population Health Sciences which includes the Department of Public Health and Policy and the Department of Health Service Research. The Institute is committed to improving lives through developments in health services, through population studies, and through impacting services, systems and policy at the heart of health and social care, both locally and globally.
 

Alexandria, Va., USA, May 6, 2020 – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Mary L. Marazita, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pa., USA as the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award in Craniofacial Biology Research.

Marazita has been on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh since 1993, currently serving as the director of the Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine. She has secondary appointments as a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics (Graduate School of Public Health), the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine).