IADR Scientific Groups and Networks are the backbone of the IADR. Explore each Group and Network to find a scientific home at IADR.
The Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group brings colleagues across disciplines together globally, and encouraging the development of trainees, to inspire and promote high-quality research in behavioral, epidemiologic, and health services sciences as they relate to oral health.
The Cariology Research Groups aims to promote research on the clinical, community and molecular aspects of dental caries and non-carious lesions, and to become a niche for networking, discussions and for collaboration among its members.
The Clinical and Translational Science Network provides a forum, promotes the advancement and aims to be relevant and integrate the clinical and translational sciences in dentistry.
The Craniofacial Biology Group brings together scientists from a broad range of disciplines with clinical, translational, and basic science research interests focused on the craniofacial complex.
The Dental Anesthesiology and Special Care Research Group is driving dental anesthesiology and special care dentistry research through promotion, dissemination, and collaboration.
The Dental Materials Group welcomes high quality science on the field of biomaterials (polymers, metals and ceramics) including their applications in classical preventive, restorative and regenerative dentistry tissue engineering, as well as substantial exploration of novel chemistries, fast fabrication techniques, and new approaches to clinical research for materials evaluation.
The Diagnostic Sciences Group is seeing the good the bad and the ugly to advance the science and serving people.
The e-Oral Health Network is an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers and oral health professionals aimed at increasing research capacity and translation in the fields of oral health Information, Communication Technologies, digital health and their related applications.
The Education Research Group engages scholars involved with the exploration of oral health education aiming at informing, developing and shaping oral health curriculum, assessment, educational policy and dental students’ environment and journey worldwide.
The Evidence-Based Dentistry Network is an active network of clinicians, researchers, teachers and guideline developers, who have a shared interest in promoting the principles and practice of evidence-based dentistry (EBD).
Geriatric Oral Research Group: Research focused on the oral health of older adults.
The Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network focuses on oral health matters, inequality matters – in GOHIRN we promote research and action on oral health inequalities.
The Implantology Research Group has a wide scope of basic, translational and clinical implant and peri-implant research that encompasses osseointegration, implant biomaterials research, cellular responses to biomaterials, surgical techniques, prosthodontic research, and digital dentistry advances applied to dental implantology.
The International Network for Orofacial Pain and Related Disorders Methodology is a consortium fostering the evidence-based diagnosis and management of orofacial pain and jaw disorders through translational research.
The Microbiology and Immunology group is comprised of a diverse set of investigators that study oral microorganisms, immunity, and host-microbe interactions and how these influence health and disease.
The Mineralized Tissue Group brings together all the scientists that work on the mysteries underlying enamel, dentin, cementum and bone mineralization, under normal and pathological conditions, in humans and in all the species displaying calcified tissues.
The Network for Practice-based Research promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the conduct of observational, investigational, and translational research in the practice of dentistry and oral health sciences.
The Neuroscience Group focuses on exchanging scientific information related to orofacial neuroscience, including orofacial function and the mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of orofacial disorders.
The Nutrition Research Group is at the nexus of sound mind, mouth, and microbiome.
The Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Group welcomes cutting-edge research encompassing a broad array of fields including cancer, tissue engineering, stem cells, biomaterials, oral medicine, pain, wound healing, TMJ, orthognathic surgery, trauma & reconstruction, and cleft lip/palate.
The Oral Health Research Group is committed to the improvement of global Oral Health and Oral Health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) through research in the areas of prevention of oral diseases, evidence-based interventions and therapies that promote wellness.
The Oral Malodor Network is a collaborative community of researchers and clinicians specializing in breath research, focusing on halitosis, with a mission to advance knowledge, facilitate interdisciplinary exchange, and promote awareness and development in the field.
The Oral Medicine and Pathology Group features expert research group on local and systemic diseases affecting all structures of the orofacial region, cancers and its impact on general health.
The Orthodontic Research Group invites innovators who focus on areas of basic, translational, and clinical research to collaborate and exchange ideas that can advance the field of Orthodontics & Craniofacial Orthopedics.
The Pediatric Oral Health Research group is committed to the advancement of Pediatric Oral Health through the support and promotion of research in all fields related to oral health in children, adolescents, and individuals with special health care needs, in an environment of collaboration and camaraderie.
The Periodontal Research Group aims to promote and encourage dissemination of the science of periodontology worldwide, to facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary discussions in periodontal research, to recognize scientific excellence, and to provide broad networking opportunities.
The Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology Research Group promotes and encourages research in the full spectrum of pharmacology, therapeutics and toxicology related to oral health.
The Prosthodontics Group gathers researchers in all aspects of replacing missing (parts of) teeth to exchange knowledge, establish collaborations and inspire each other.
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The Pulp Biology & Regeneration Group focuses on the study of the physiology, pathology and regeneration of the dentin-pulp-complex and its surrounding tissues.
The Salivary Research Group is focused on salivary glands and saliva - from its biology, evolution to any diseases or disorders correlated with it.
The IADR Stem Cell Biology Group encourages multi-disciplinary investigation and disseminate knowledge of stem and progenitor cells and translation of fundamental discoveries towards novel clinical approaches that benefit oral health.
The STAR Network facilitates student research training and foster student research activities on a global level.
The Women in Science Network aims to promote the interests of women in communication, research collaboration, career advancement and mentoring.
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