09:00-18:00 Registration

09:00-13:00 Poster Mounting

11:00-11:30 Opening Ceremony

11:30-13:00
“The Design and Conduct of Intervention Studies in Dentistry, Part 1”
Denis O'Mullane (Oral Health Services Research Centre, Cork, Ireland)
Chair: Dominique Declerck, School for Dentistry, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

13:00-14:00 Lunch

 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break and Poster Discussion

Chair: Betül Kargül, Marmara University, Turkey

 PP-02 Role of Socio-Economic Factors in School-Based Interventions to Improve Gingival Health of Adolescents
Reza Yazdani, Tehran University, Iran

PP-03 Oral Health Care for Drug Addicts: A Framework for Population-Based Interventions
Hajar Shekarchizadeh, Tehran University, Iran

PP-04 A Comparative Study of the Effect of Rubber Drain on Postoperative Discomfort following Lower Third Molar Surgery
Felix Chukwuneke, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu, Nigeria

PP-06 Evaluation of Pain on Gender, Age and the Length of Surgical Intervention following Mandibular Third Molar Surgery: Using the Student’s T-Test to Assess the Critical Value of T-Distribution

Felix Chukwuneke, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu, Nigeria
PP-11 A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Children with Asthma and Dental Caries
Meltem Bakkal, Marmara University, Turkey

15:30-17:10 Oral Presentations

Chair :Allan Donner, University of Western Ontario, Canada

15:30-15:50
OP-02 Systematic Review on Topical Fluoride as a Cause of Dental Fluorosis in Children
May CM Wong, The University of Hong Kong, China

15:50-16:10
OP-05 Oral Health Promotion in Infants and Toddlers: A Community Trial against Sugary Snacks
Simin Z. Mohebbi, Tehran University, Iran

16:10-16:30
OP-06 Correcting for Misclassification for a Monotone Disease Process with an Application in Dental Research
Timothy Mutsvari, L-Biostat, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

 16:30-16:50
OP-11 An Application of Mars (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines) in Dental Studies: Fissure Sealants
Yeliz Sevimli, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey

16:50-17:10
OP-12 Examiner Performance in Calibration Exercises compared with Field Conditions when Scoring Caries Experience
Dominique Declerck, School for Dentistry, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

17:10-17:40 Coffee Break and Poster Discussion

Chair:Jocelyne Feine, Faculty of Dentistry, Mc Gill University, Canada

 PP-08 Survival Rates of Atraumatic Restorative Treatments (Art) on Occlusal Caries after Two Years
Olushola Ibiyemi, University Of Ibadan, Nigeria

PP-09 Determining the Recharging Capacity of Dental Materials by Using Linear Regression Modeling
Deniz C. Can-Karabulut, Near East University, Turkey

PP-10   Methodology of Caries Risk Assessment in Epidemiological Studies
Ilze Maldupa, Riga Stradins University, Latvia

PP-12 How to Use CDC Dataset for Hypothesis Generation in Dental Research
Siamak Sabour, Tabriz University, Iran

PP-21 Protective Effects of TİF4 on Enamel Erosion: Meta–Analysis
Berna Öztürk, Marmara University, Turkey

17:40-18:00 Welcome Reception

09:00-10:30
“The Design and Conduct of Intervention Studies in Dentistry, Part 2”
Denis O' Mullane (Oral Health Services Research Centre, Cork, Ireland)
Chair: Dominique Declerck, School for Dentistry, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and Poster Discussion

Chair: Dominique Declerck, School for Dentistry, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

PP-13 Assessing Educational Outcomes in Innovative Online Learning
Patricia Reynolds, King's College London, UK

PP-14 Factors Associated with Satisfaction of Postgraduate Orthodontic Training among European Residents
Elisabeth Santigli, Medical University Graz, Austria

PP-17 Dental Health Status of 6-7 Years-Old Preschool Children from Bucharest, Romania
Mihaela Tanase, Carol Davila University, Romania

PP-18 Oral Health of 12-Year-Olds in Gulbene District in Latvia
Ilze Maldupa, Riga Stradins University, Latvia

PP-19 Correlation vs. Causation in Epidemiological Research
Siamak Sabour, Tabriz University, Iran

11:00-12:00
“Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials in Oral Health, Part 1”
Allan Donner (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Chair: Emmanuel Lesaffre, L-Biostat, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00
“Empirical Evidence on Sources and Effects of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials”
Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol, UK)
Chair:Nural Bekiroğlu, Marmara University, Turkey

14:00-14:30 Coffee Break and Poster Discussion

Chair: Jocelyne Feine, Faculty of Dentistry, Mc Gill University, Canada

PP-20 Effectiveness of the New Dentifrice Containing Centella Asiatica and Bamboo Salt: Randomized Blinded Trial with Cross-Over Design
Hyun-Duck Kim, Seoul National University, Korea

PP-22 Clinical Comparison of Self-Ligating Brackets Versus Conventional Brackets
Burcu Usta Selamet, Marmara University, Turkey

PP-23 Effect of Aging on Color Stability and Surface Roughness of Denture Liners
Ülkü Tuğba Terzi, Ankara University, Turkey

PP-24 Comparison of Traditional One-Way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Test with Their Permutation Counterparts through an Example from Endodontics
M. Tuğba Erdem, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

PP-25 Methodological Consideration in Dental Research
Siamak Sabour, Tabriz University, Iran

15:00-16:00
“NIH Funding of International Studies - Opportunities and Challenges”
Bruce Pihlstrom (University of Minnesota, USA)
Chair:  Allan Donner, University of Western Ontario, Canada

16:00-17:30
“Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials in Oral Health, Part 2”
Allan Donner (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Chair: Emmanuel Lesaffre, L-Biostat, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

 20:30 - 23:30 Gala Dinner

09:00-10:20 Oral Presentations

Chair: Betül Kargül, Marmara University, Turkey

09:00-09:20
OP-09 Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Clustered Binary Response in Oral Health Research
Ronen Ofec, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

09:20-09:40
OP-14 Measuring the Predictive Ability of a Frailty Model with an Application
Robin Van Oirbeek, L-Biostat, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

09:40-10:00
OP-15 Principal Component Analysis and Biplots for Interval-Censored Data: Visualizing the Sequences of Emergence of Permanent Teeth
Patrick Groenen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

10:00-10:20
OP-17 Preliminary Analyses from an Hospital Based Study on 3154 Western Sicilian Patients with Oral Mucosal Lesions
Domenica Matranga, University Of Palermo, Italy

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and Poster Discussion

Chair: Dominique Declerck, School for Dentistry, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

PP-26 A Study for Missing Data Imputation on Countries Oral Health Data
Elif Çiğdem Kaspar, Yeditepe University, Turkey

PP-27 Denture Use among the Elderly in Idikan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Olushola Ibiyemi, University Of Ibadan, Nigeria

PP-28 Status of the First Permanent Molar and Needs for Prosthetics in a Group of Special Olympics Athletes
Arina Vinereanu, Special Olympics Romania, Romania

PP-29 A Study on Neonatal Factors and Eruption Time of Primary Teeth
Yeliz Güven, İstanbul University, Turkey

PP-30 Awareness and Anxiety in Patient with Oral Mucosal Diseases: A Pilot Study
Müşerref Asuman Akgün, Marmara University, Turkey

PP-31 Power and Sample Size Calculation in Dental Research
Siamak Sabour, Tabriz University, Iran

11:00-11:45 Closing Ceremony