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Dr. Kostas Kapellas is a Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Adelaide's Adelaide Dental School and the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health. His work focuses on oral health disparities, particularly among Indigenous populations, and the role of oral microbiota in chronic diseases. He has contributed to systematic reviews on dental caries prevalence, periodontal disease inequities, and the impact of public health policies like sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. His research also explores microbiome-based interventions and social determinants of health screening tools.
Key areas of investigation include Indigenous healthcare access barriers, oral microbiome composition, and the interplay between periodontal health and systemic conditions like cardiovascular disease. He has led projects such as the PerioCardio study evaluating periodontal therapy's cardiovascular effects and contributed to studies on Indigenous oral health outcomes in Australia and globally. His publications emphasize translational research addressing health inequities through evidence-based interventions.
