- Dental-facial development
(Janna Waltimo-Sirén) - Oral Diseases and General Health
(J.H. Meurman) - Orthodontics
(David Rice) - Cell Biology of Oral Diseases (Timo Sorsa)
- Oral Biology and Periodontology (Veli-Jukka Uitto)
- Dental Genetics
(Pekka Nieminen, Sirpa Arte) - Environmental Disruption of Dental Development
(Satu Alaluusua, Pirjo-Liisa Lukinmaa) - Periodontitis and cardiovascular disease
(Pirkko Pussinen) - Oral Public Health
(Heikki Murtomaa) - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Christian Lindqvist)
- Oral Pathology
(Jarkko Hietanen) - Oral Radiology
(Jaakko Peltola) - Prosthetic Dentistry
(Mauno Könönen) - Oral Microbiology and Infections Research Group
(Riina Richardson)
Institute of Dentistry
BOX 41 (Mannerheimintie 172)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 1911
Fax. +358 9 191 27519
Institute of Dentistry
Scientific Research laboratory
Biomedicum
P.O.Box 63 (Haartmaninkatu 8)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 1911
Oral Pathology
Jarkko Hietanen, M.D., Ph.D., D.D.S., M.Sc.
Professor of Oral Pathology, Institute of Dentistry, and Chief Physician,
HUSLAB, Helsinki University Central Hospital
Research topics:
1) Suitability of various biomaterials for maxillomandibular fixation, using experimental animal models.
2) Histological changes in the oral mucosae of APECED (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy) patients
3) Various inflammatory cell markers in oral mucosal lesions of Finnish APECED patients.
4) The impact of yeast infection on periodontal diseases and the penetration of fungi into the epithelial tissue
5) Early diagnostic methods in Sjögren´s syndrome. 6) Salivary glands, saliva and oral health in various rheumatic diseases