Rate My Professor Angela Benn

Benn conducts research at the Sir John Walsh Research Institute, specializing in dental public health and oral epidemiology. Her academic interests encompass oral microbiomes, plaque composition and dental caries risk in midlife, associations of lifestyle factors like sex, oral hygiene, and smoking with oral species in distinct habitats, xerostomia prevalence and impact, and saliva's role in oral health. Key publications include "Plaque and Dental Caries Risk in Midlife" (Caries Research, 2022), co-authored with Nicholas C. K. Heng, W. Murray Thomson, and Jonathan M. Broadbent; "Associations of sex, oral hygiene and smoking with oral species in distinct habitats at age 32 years" (European Journal of Oral Sciences, 2022); "Studying the human oral microbiome: Challenges and the evolution of solutions" (Australian Dental Journal, 2017); "Occurrence and impact of xerostomia among dentate adult New Zealanders: Findings from a national survey" (2014); "Saliva: an overview" (New Zealand Dental Journal, 2014); "Dentigerous cysts of inflammatory origin: A clinicopathologic study" (1996); and "Amelogenesis imperfecta: Multiple impactions associated with odontogenic fibromas (WHO) type" (1990). These works reflect her long-standing contributions to clinical and epidemiological aspects of dentistry.