06.01.18
SWITZERLAND: The Sunstar Foundation recently celebrated the 1st Perio Link Award, which is designed to bring scientific innovations in the relationship between oral and general health closer to the general population.
Since 2003, Sunstar Foundation has recognized the best research papers about this relationship through awards such as the World Perio Research Award. This new prize is a step forward to increase awareness among the population about how oral health is related to overall health, according to the company.
“Most of the time, scientific news is exclusive to the technical community due to the network where they are naturally shared. However, we strongly believe that news impacting general health should be shared with all the population, which can directly benefit by being informed about how to improve their wellbeing.
Therefore, the 1st Perio Link Award aims to share technic news from the field of oral and general health with a non-science audience more simply and engagingly,” noted Dr. Marzia Massignani, scientific affairs manager of Sunstar.
The Sunstar Foundation Scientific Committee, chaired by Prof. Robert J. Genco, selected 23 papers from the past three years. Each lead author explained in a one-minute video the main objectives and findings. Finally, the viewers voted online for the best video to win the Sunstar Perio Link Award.
The inaugural winner is “Resolvin E1 Reverses Experimental Periodontitis and Dysbiosis,” which was published in October 2016 in the Journal of Immunology. The paper shows how to improve the treatment of periodontal disease by having a pharmacological control of inflammation with natural molecules and, at the same time, reverse the periodontal process.
The lead author will be awarded during the Perio Link Night on June 22 in Amsterdam.
Since 2003, Sunstar Foundation has recognized the best research papers about this relationship through awards such as the World Perio Research Award. This new prize is a step forward to increase awareness among the population about how oral health is related to overall health, according to the company.
“Most of the time, scientific news is exclusive to the technical community due to the network where they are naturally shared. However, we strongly believe that news impacting general health should be shared with all the population, which can directly benefit by being informed about how to improve their wellbeing.
Therefore, the 1st Perio Link Award aims to share technic news from the field of oral and general health with a non-science audience more simply and engagingly,” noted Dr. Marzia Massignani, scientific affairs manager of Sunstar.
The Sunstar Foundation Scientific Committee, chaired by Prof. Robert J. Genco, selected 23 papers from the past three years. Each lead author explained in a one-minute video the main objectives and findings. Finally, the viewers voted online for the best video to win the Sunstar Perio Link Award.
The inaugural winner is “Resolvin E1 Reverses Experimental Periodontitis and Dysbiosis,” which was published in October 2016 in the Journal of Immunology. The paper shows how to improve the treatment of periodontal disease by having a pharmacological control of inflammation with natural molecules and, at the same time, reverse the periodontal process.
The lead author will be awarded during the Perio Link Night on June 22 in Amsterdam.