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Dr. med. dent. Despina Koletsi, Dipl.D.S, MSc, MSc DLSHTM, PGCHEd

Senior Teaching and Research Assistant (Oberassistentin)

Dr. med. dent. Vasiliki Koretsi, DDS, MSc
  Contact: E-Mail: despoina.koletsi@zzm.uzh.ch
  Qualifications: Dipl.D.S, MSc, Dr. med. dent, MSc DLSHTM, PGCHEd
  Affiliation: Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
   

Clinical Specialisations

Orthodontics

Research Interests

Despina Koletsi’s primary interests focus on the improvement of the quality of the disseminated information in the field of orthodontics and oral health and the integration of transparency and credibility in research findings, by generating and facilitating approaches that secure the production of reliable evidence. She has been working on methods that underscore the uncertainty of the available evidence, its limitations and its relationship with intervention effect estimates, factors which determine the trustworthiness of the research findings. Despina Koletsi is also active on primary research practices (both in- vitro and clinical) that are associated with identified risks and management of the use of biomaterials in orthodontics. Furthermore, she has been additionally actively involved in initiatives to address issues of gender disparity in academia and to raise awareness on the necessity to create equal opportunities, and to support transparency and consistency in evaluation criteria for women’s career development, through the dissemination of empirical evidence reflecting the current state of under- representation of women in both scholarly writing and visibility to peers.

Topics

  • Clinical Orthodontics

  • Research Methods and Reporting

Selected publications

Koletsi D, Solmi M, Pandis N, Fleming PS, Correll CU, Ioannidis JPA. Most recommended medical interventions reach P < 0.005 for their primary outcomes in meta-analyses. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Jun 1;49(3):885-893. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz241.

Koletsi D, Belibasakis GN, Eliades T. Interventions to Reduce Aerosolized Microbes in Dental Practice: A Systematic Review with Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. J Dent Res. 2020 Oct;99(11):1228-1238. doi: 10.1177/0022034520943574.

Koletsi D, Papadopoulou AK. Gender disparity in speakers of the European Orthodontic Society conferences held between 2015 and 2020: a cross-sectional report. Eur J Orthod. 2022 Dec 1;44(6):614-621. doi: 10.1093/ejo/cjac026.

Koletsi D, Panayi N, Laspos C, Athanasiou AE, Zinelis S, Eliades T. In vivo aging-induced surface roughness alterations of Invisalign® and 3D-printed aligners. J Orthod. 2023 Dec;50(4):352-360. doi: 10.1177/14653125221145948.

Djulbegovic B, Koletsi D, Hozo I, Price A, Martimbianco ALC, Riera R, Nadanovsky P, Dos Santos APP, Pandis N, Pacheco RL, Fontes LE, Seehra J, Ahmed M, Yao L, Nunan D, Hemkens LG. High certainty evidence is stable and trustworthy, whereas evidence of moderate or lower certainty may be equally prone to being unstable. J Clin Epidemiol. 2024 May 11;171:111392. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111392. Epub ahead of print.

Links

Researchgate, PubMed, Google Scolar

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