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Dr Archana Pradhan
PhD Candidate
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Archana
has a dental background. She completed an Honours programme in this centre
with a project titled: Oral health promotion strategies for Nepal. She
is currently close to completion of a PhD in the area of special needs.
The focus of her PhD research is: Oral care for adults with physical
and intellectual disabilities. It explores the oral health status and
preventive dental practice among people aged 18-44 years with physical
and intellectual disabilities living in three residential settings.
The overall goal of the project is to determine characteristics of carers
and organisations that have potential to improve the oral health of adults
with physical and intellectual disabilities.
She is a recipient of Faculty of Health Science, Divisional Scholarship.
Together with Professor A John Spencer and Professor Gary D Slade, she
has succeeded in an Australian Dental Research Foundation grant to pursue
her research.
She also works for South Australian Dental Service at the Special Needs
Unit, Adelaide Dental Hospital.
email:archana.pradhan@adelaide.edu.au
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