Speech Title: Treatments Related to Temporomandibular Disorders Among Patients with Prevalent Types of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in Sweden
Biography: Dr. Negin Yekkalam Balfe is specialist dentist within orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders from Sweden. She has completed her PhD within temporomandibular disorders in different perspectives such as epidemiology, etiology, treatment needs, and pain comorbidities, from Umeå University, Sweden. She has also accomplished a Master degree within “epidemiology’’ from Umeå university as well as a Master degree within ‘’experimental orofacial pain’’ from Karolinska institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Her main research area is epidemiological studies within oral health, and comorbidities with TMD. Currently she is the principal investigator (PI) for the EDS project in Sweden and Finland. This project is focusing on TMD in different perspectives among EDS population and has a strong collaboration with experts from Europe and the USA. She is the member of Swedish association of orofacial pain, and Swedish Pain Society. She has published 11 articles in highimpact journals.