Dental health

Dental and oral health research

Explore our research in dental and oral health

Our dental and oral health research contributes to the development of evidence-based health care for patients and the wider community, and towards the high-quality education of the dental team.

Within our Dental Academy, we engage with internal and external collaborators – both locally and internationally – and our research is aligned to our teaching and innovation activities.

Our dental and oral health areas of expertise

Dental public health

We undertake research relating to promoting health, preventing disease and how to facilitate access to high quality dental care for all.

Dental public health
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Dental education

We're focusing on the development and evaluation of education for the dental team, and working to develop new operative and learning tools for dentistry.

dental education
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Clinical innovation

We're conducting studies that consider and test advanced clinical and diagnostic techniques, efficient models of clinical care, and novel clinical materials.

Clinical innovation
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Our members

Christos Louca Portrait

Professor Chris Louca

Director of the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy

chris.louca@port.ac.uk

Dental Academy

Faculty of Science and Health

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Alessandro Vichi

Senior Lecturer

alessandro.vichi@port.ac.uk

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Mahdi Amen Mohamed Mutahar Portrait

Dr Mahdi Mutahar

Senior Lecturer

mahdi.mutahar@port.ac.uk

Dental Academy

Faculty of Science and Health

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Marina Harris

Associate Professor in Dental Education and Wellbeing

Marina.Harris@port.ac.uk

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Carolina Angelica Machuca Vargas Portrait

Dr Carolina Machuca Vargas

Associate Head (Research and Innovation)

Carolina.Machuca-Vargas@port.ac.uk

Dental Academy

Faculty of Science and Health

PhD Supervisor

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Interested in a PhD in Dental and Oral Health?

Browse our postgraduate research degrees – including PhDs and MPhils – at our Dental and Oral Health postgraduate research degrees page.