Doctoral Student Position in Pedodontics and Dental Trauma Research Karolinska Institutet in Sweden

Karolinska Institutet is seeking a doctoral student for an interdisciplinary clinical research project in pedodontics, dental traumatology and orthodontics. The project focuses on the long-term outcomes of orthodontic treatment for children and adolescents with previously traumatized permanent incisors.

The research will investigate treatment outcomes, tooth survival, complications, clinical and radiological risk factors, and the cost-effectiveness of orthodontic treatment. It is designed to support improved prognostic assessment, individualized treatment planning and better care pathways for young patients with complex dental conditions.

The doctoral project consists of three connected components: a systematic review of evidence on orthodontic tooth movement in traumatized permanent teeth; a retrospective cohort study examining long-term survival and complication rates; and an investigation of clinical, radiological and treatment-related factors associated with complications and tooth loss.

The doctoral student will contribute centrally to the project through systematic literature review, medical-record review, extraction of clinical and radiological data, radiographic assessment, statistical analysis and scientific publication. The work is based on established clinical infrastructure and longitudinal medical-record data from the Public Dental Service in the Stockholm Region.

The research group brings together expertise in pedodontics, orthodontics, endodontics, epidemiology, register-based research, biostatistics and health economics. The position is embedded in the Department of Dentistry at Karolinska Institutet, a leading medical university with a strong clinical and translational research environment and international collaborations.