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Assessment, Technology, & Treatment Outcomes Research Program

Overview

This program focuses on behavioral treatments, health promotion and maintaining good health, and intervention and outcome research. Typically, such research is conducted in medical, dental, community, health care, social, and related settings, with an impact on dental, oral, and craniofacial health. Research incorporating comorbid or related medical conditions as well as person or systemic indices are especially welcome. Relevant research topics include, but are not limited to:

Basic Research in Behavioral, Social, & Biopsychosocial Processes Program

Overview

This program’s portfolio includes research to increase our collective knowledge on the nature of basic behavioral, psychosocial, social, and/or biopsychosocial mechanisms and processes of health-related behaviors. Projects should be designed to deepen our understanding of how and why humans initiate, adopt, maintain, and sustain behaviors that impede or promote optimal health and well-being within the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)’s research mission.

Analytic & Translational Research in Behavioral, Social, and Public Health Program

Overview

This program focuses on utilizing knowledge across disciplines in the behavioral, social, and public health sciences to advance dental, oral, craniofacial (DOC), and systemic health for all. It supports research that examines the biological, economic, environmental, psychological, and/or social factors associated with DOC health.

Clinical Technology Research Program

Overview

The Clinical Technologies Research Program supports basic, translational, and clinical research that proposes the development of innovative technologies that could improve the health of people with oral and craniofacial diseases and disorders. Relevant research topics include, but are not limited to:

Practice-Based Research Program

Overview

The Practice-Based Research Program supports clinical research studies conducted in a clinical care setting with consenting patients. Essentially, it is research done in the “real world” of daily clinical practice. Practice-based research can generate important and timely information to guide the delivery of health care and improve patient outcomes, and it has the following features:

HIV/AIDS & Oral Health Research Program

Overview

The HIV/AIDS and Oral Health Research Program supports basic, translational, and clinical research relevant to dental, oral, and craniofacial health on HIV/AIDS that is aligned with the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) areas of emphasis. The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research supports research to advance understanding of the underlying molecular, cellular, immunologic, and genetic mechanisms of HIV infection; the development of oral comorbidities associated with HIV/AIDS; and the effects of HIV treatments on oral and dental tissues.

Oral Health Disparities Research Program

Overview

Despite remarkable improvements in the oral health of Americans, chronic oral diseases and conditions remain among the most common health problems across the lifespan. These conditions can be particularly prevalent and severe for individuals and communities that face economic or other barriers to health care. Given the complexity of oral health disparities research (OHDR), interdisciplinary research teams must collaborate with affected communities and populations for research conceptualization, planning, implementation, and dissemination.

Oral & Comprehensive Health Program

Overview

The Oral and Comprehensive Health Program aims to promote clinical research to advance knowledge in the diagnosis, prevention, and management of dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases in the context of systemic health. The program supports research that evaluates the interaction between oral health and general health throughout the lifespan considering advances in science and health care integration to investigate promising directions for improving oral and comprehensive health. Relevant research topics include, but are not limited to:

Clinical Trials Program

Overview

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is committed to identifying effective preventive, diagnostic, and treatment approaches for dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases and disorders. To advance these efforts, the institute supports well-designed and well-executed clinical trials (Phase I, II, III, and IV) that test interventions with the potential to improve dental, oral, and craniofacial health.

Clinical Research & Epidemiology Program

Overview

The Clinical Research and Epidemiology Program promotes research that aims to advance knowledge in prevention, diagnosis, and clinical management of dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases and conditions. This program supports rigorous applied study designs and statistical analyses of dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases and disorders to improve patient and population health. Examples of supported research include: