Cardiff School of Dentistry is one of two recipients of this year's Eklund Foundation Grants.

The Eklund Foundation for Odontological Research and Education has been supporting research projects in dentistry for eight years. The 2023 Grant recipients will together receive funding amounting to around €275,500.

Since 2016, the Eklund Foundation, set up by the Eklund family (owners of TePe oral hygiene products) has distributed up to €250,000 annually, supporting odontological research worldwide.

The Eklund Foundation will award a grant of €121,742 to the Cardiff School of Dentistry project ‘Evaluating the Validity and Patient Experience of Smartphone Intra-oral Photography for Remote Oral Health Assessment in Children: a Mixed Methods, Comparative Study' led by Nicola Innes, Head of Cardiff School of Dentistry, Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry, and co-applicants Waraf Al-yaseen, Lecturer in Dental Hygiene and Therapy and Jennifer Galloway, Senior Lecturer & Consultant in Orthodontics, Cardiff School of Dentistry.

The Cardiff team believe that their study will have the potential to positively influence accessibility to oral health care for many people.

Approximately €153,800 has been awarded to a research team at Karolinska institutet, Unit of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Sweden led by Anna Norhammar, MD, Professor in cardiology, to investigate ‘Periodontitis and Its Relation to Coronary Artery Disease (PAROKRANK) - a case controls study with mechanistic and prospective analyses'.

Joel Eklund, Chairman of the Board, Eklund Foundation, said, ‘We are delighted to support these highly relevant studies. They have the potential to add valuable knowledge within their respective fields.'