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Current research lines are:

• Exploring caries experience and its determinants
• Oral health monitoring of population groups
• Inventorizing oral health care needs in specific groups of the Belgian population
• Evaluation of an oral health promotion initiative in small children - the Smile for Life project
• Timing of tooth emergence and the challenge of dealing with interval-censored ...

The Oral Health Research Unit conducts research that generates and applies biomedical knowledge and technology to oral health and disease and promotes translation of this acquired expertise to oral health and oral health care.

For more information about the research topics of the different research teams belonging to this department see: Population studies in Oral Health; Biomaterials - BIOMAT; Orthdontics; Periodontology and Oral ...

to do multidisiciplinary fundamental and applied (evaluation) research in following domains international comparative health systems research comparative health services research (organisational models and interorganisational networking) the use of technologies in health care socio-economic inequalities in health patient participation knowlegde transfer methodologies between reserach and policymakers focus on innovations in health systems and ...

The research unit Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery - Imaging & Pathology (OMFS-IMPATH) consists of the following divisions:

• Stomatology & Maxillofacial Surgery
• Oral Imaging

This unit is a part of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Group.

KU Leuven LUCAS, Centre for care research and consultancy

LUCAS is an interdisciplinary research centre of KU Leuven, active in the fields of care and welfare. Its mission is threefold: research, trainin g and consultancy. In all three areas, LUCAS brings together insights fr om policy, practice and research, and this in constant dialogue with all stakeholders.
Over the past twenty years, LUCAS has specialise d in a number ...