Sunstar Foundation’s 2025 World Perio Research and Perio Link Awards Announced

May 2, 2024

Awards promote the groundbreaking work of scientific researchers and the link between oral health and systemic health.

Every 3 years the Sunstar World Perio Awards take place and Sunstar Oral Health has just announced the new 2025 editions of the World Perio Research Awards and Perio Link Award. The aim of these awards is to raise awareness of the groundbreaking work of scientific researchers on the link between oral health and systemic health.

Sponsored by the Sunstar Foundation since its inception in 2003, the Sunstar World Perio Research Awards are held in collaboration with 4 periodontal research journals—the Journal of Periodontal Research, the Journal of Periodontology, the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, and the Journal of Dental Research.

The Perio Link Award for researchers is a self-nominated award is open to all researchers and clinicians who published a research paper on the link between oral health and general health between Jan. 1, 2021 and Dec. 31, 2023.

“We created the World Perio Research Awards to help shape the future of oral-systemic health, push the boundaries of periodontal research and redefine the relationship between periodontal and systemic health,”

comments Mayumi Kaneda, director of the Sunstar Foundation, in a press release.

The Sunstar World Perio Research Awards

For the eighth edition next year, each of the4 journal editors in chief will again select 5 papers from their own journal, published between Jan. 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2023, that provide important new insights into the relationship between periodontal disease and systemic health, while the editors emeriti will also each nominate 2 impactful papers on the same topic but published outside the dental field.

The Screening Committee will then evaluate all the pre-selected papers to nominate 1 first-place winner and 2 runners-up in November 2024, according to Sunstar. The first-place honoree will receive $10,000, while each runner-up gets a $5,000 prize. All winners will also be invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to EuroPerio 11 Vienna 2025 when the awards will be presented.

The Perio Link Award for Researchers

First launched 5 years ago, the Sunstar Perio Link Award aims to champion the link between oral health and general health and allow researchers to share their latest discoveries that make an impact beyond the scientific community.

To apply for this third edition self-nominated award, entrants need to submit a 1-minute video in English to explain the findings of their paper in a way that is understandable to the general public, Sunstar states.

All videos for the Perio Link Award must be submitted before Sept. 30, 2024 and all eligible videos will be published on the Sunstar YouTube channel.

The public can vote for this award beginning Oct. 1, 2024 and running through Jan. 15, 2025.

Anyone can vote online for their favorite video on Sunstar’s YouTube channel, and the submission with the most votes will be the winner. The first-place recipient of the Sunstar Perio Link Award will also receive an all-expenses trip to EuroPerio 11 Vienna 2025 along with a $1,000 prize.

“The Perio Link Award is dedicated to raising awareness of the connection between oral health and general health, by shining a light on the newest discoveries on this link,” adds Kaneda. “We’re proud to support both awards to further promote research and develop greater knowledge about this crucial 2-way connection, while celebrating the incredible work and achievements being made every day by clinicians worldwide to develop greater knowledge of this connection—as we’ve been doing for over 30 years.”

Scientific researchers can find further information along with the entry rules for both 2025 awards on the Sunstar Foundation Awards link. The Sunstar Foundation, whose mission is to promote health, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation through education and research, focused on the connection between oral and general health, oversees both Sunstar awards.