E058 – Oral Sciences (OSRG)

Objectives

Oral Sciences Research Group is a specialized multidisciplinary research group that applies omics and artificial intelligence technologies in the field of Dental Sciences.

Lines of research

• Dentistry in patients with special needs
• Peri-implantitis
• Relationship between oral infections and systemic diseases
• Tissue regeneration in periodontics

• Regueira Iglesias A, Vázquez-González L, Balsa-Castro C, Blanco-Pintos T, Martín-Biedma B, Arce VM, Carreira MJ, Tomás I. In-silico detection of oral prokaryotic species with highly similar 16S rRNA sequence segments using different primer pairs. J Front Cell Infect Microbiol (accepted, in press)
• Miguéns-Vila R, Martín-Biedma B, De-Deus G, Belladonna FG, Peña-López A, Castelo-Baz P. Micro-computed tomography evaluation of dentinal micro-cracks after preparation of curved root canals with ProTaper Gold, WaveOne Gold and ProTaper NEXT instruments. J Endod 2021; 47 (2): 309-314. doi: 10.1016/j.joen.2020.10.014.
• Ruíz-Piñón M, Gancedo-Gancedo T, Seoane-Prado R, Pérez-Estévez A, Blanco-Méndez J, Luzardo-Álvarez AM, Castelo-Baz P, Lorenzo-Pouso AI, Álvarez-Novoa P, Martín-Biedma B. In vitro development of a new sponge-based delivery system for intracanal antimicrobial administration in endodontic treatment. J Clin Med 2021, Jun 21;10(12):2725. doi: 10.3390/jcm10122725
• Vila-Blanco N, Carreira MJ, Varas-Quintana P, Balsa-Castro C, Tomás I. Deep neural networks for chronological age estimation from OPG images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2020 Jan 31. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2020.2968765
• Arias-Bujanda N, Regueira-Iglesias A, Blanco-Pintos T, Alonso-Sampedro M, Relvas M, González-Peteiro MM, Balsa-Castro C, Tomás I. Diagnostic accuracy of IL1β in saliva: The development of predictive models for estimating the probability of the occurrence of periodontitis in non-smokers and smokers. J Clin Periodontol 2020 Jun;47(6):702-714. doi: 10.1111/jcpe.13285
• Vila-Blanco N, Freire V, Balsa-Castro C, Tomás I, Carreira MJ. DenTiUS Plaque, a web-based application for the quantification of bacterial plaque: development and usability study. J Med Internet Res 2020 Sep 3;22(9):e18570. doi: 10.2196/18570
• Arias- Bujanda N, Regueira-Iglesias A, Balsa-Castro C, Nibali L, Donos N, Tomás I. Accuracy of single molecular biomarkers in saliva for the diagnosis of periodontitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Periodontol 2020; 47(1): 2-18. doi: 10.1111/jcpe.13202
• Arias-Bujanda N, Regueira -Iglesias A, Balsa-Castro C, Nibali L, Donos N, Tomás I. Accuracy of single molecular biomarkers in gingival crevicular fluid for the diagnosis of periodontitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Periodontol 2019; 46(12): 1166-1182. doi: 10.1111/jcpe.13188