2023 IADR/LAR General Session with WCPD
The 2023 IADR/LAR General Session & Exhibition with WCPD provided dental, oral, and craniofacial health scientists with the opportunity to present, discuss, and critique their latest and most cutting-edge research at a 100% in-person gathering in Bogotá, Colombia. The meeting was attended by 1,667 individuals from 76 countries.The recordings in this library from the meeting are a selection of the science that was presented at the General Session. These recordings give you the opportunity to participate in the meeting and hear from leading researchers. The recordings include IADR Distinguished Lecture Series speakers and symposia from a collection of scientific groups and networks.
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Session Description
This symposium will draw on contemporary knowledge on the exposomics of oral health and how they can be employed to understand pathways to oral health inequalities. Exposomics is the study of the extrinsic social, environmental and behavioural exposures that occur cumulatively and at various time-points along the life-course from conception onward, and their impact on health through modifying intrinsic biological processes. While exposures are well-known to be unequitably distributed amongst groups of the population to generate health inequalities, their associations with the biological factors which ultimately lead to adverse oral health outcomes are less understood. Deciphering the mechanisms which link extrinisic and intrinsic factors can provide important insights into the pathways by which oral diseases and related health inequalities emerge along the life-course. Presentations will elaborate on findings from population genomics studies that demonstrate gene-environment interactions underlying oral diseases and related oral health inequalities, and will discuss novel biomarkers employed to assess the impact of early environmental exposures on oral and systemic diseases. Processes of biological embedding of the social and behavioural exposures and their implications to oral health inequalities will also be discussed. Finally, a comprehensive view of the traditional and current perceptions of the life-course and biopsychosocial models using an ecological lens will be addressed, while reflecting on conceptual frameworks from the social and behavioural sciences that can guide the integration of exposomics in oral health inequalities research. Four 15-minute presentations will be followed by a 30-minute panel discussion and a question-and-answer period.
Learning Objectives
Friday, June 23, 2023
Session Organizer/Chair
Noha Gomaa (Organizer/Chair)
Presenters
Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research; Pediatric Oral Health Research; Oral Medicine & Pathology; Oral Health Research; Geriatric Oral Research; Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical and Translational Science Network
CE Credits
1.5 Hours
Financial Interest Disclosure:
NONE
This symposium will draw on contemporary knowledge on the exposomics of oral health and how they can be employed to understand pathways to oral health inequalities. Exposomics is the study of the extrinsic social, environmental and behavioural exposures that occur cumulatively and at various time-points along the life-course from conception onward, and their impact on health through modifying intrinsic biological processes. While exposures are well-known to be unequitably distributed amongst groups of the population to generate health inequalities, their associations with the biological factors which ultimately lead to adverse oral health outcomes are less understood. Deciphering the mechanisms which link extrinisic and intrinsic factors can provide important insights into the pathways by which oral diseases and related health inequalities emerge along the life-course. Presentations will elaborate on findings from population genomics studies that demonstrate gene-environment interactions underlying oral diseases and related oral health inequalities, and will discuss novel biomarkers employed to assess the impact of early environmental exposures on oral and systemic diseases. Processes of biological embedding of the social and behavioural exposures and their implications to oral health inequalities will also be discussed. Finally, a comprehensive view of the traditional and current perceptions of the life-course and biopsychosocial models using an ecological lens will be addressed, while reflecting on conceptual frameworks from the social and behavioural sciences that can guide the integration of exposomics in oral health inequalities research. Four 15-minute presentations will be followed by a 30-minute panel discussion and a question-and-answer period.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the contribution of genetics to understanding the environmental impact on oral disease and related oral health inequalities, and identify novel biomarkers for environmental exposures and their relevance to oral and systemic diseases.
- Understand the processes underlying the biological embedding through social and behavioural epigenetics, and their implications to oral health inequalities.
- Describe the conceptual models from the social and behavioural sciences used to incorporate exposomics in oral health inequalities research.
Friday, June 23, 2023
Session Organizer/Chair
Noha Gomaa (Organizer/Chair)
Presenters
- Kimon Divaris - Gene-environment interactions in early childhood caries
- Toby Hughes - The first 1000 days of life: The stories teeth can tell us
- Noha Gomaa - Social epigenetics: A biological embedding pathway to oral health inequalities
- Daniel McNeil - Exposomics in inequalities research: Integrative ecological lens including behavioural/social sciences
Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research; Pediatric Oral Health Research; Oral Medicine & Pathology; Oral Health Research; Geriatric Oral Research; Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical and Translational Science Network
CE Credits
1.5 Hours
NONE
