Len Crocombe

Biography

Assoc Prof Crocombe is Chief Investigator of the Centre for Research Excellence in Primary Oral Health Care and co-ordinates the four research themes of: successful aging and oral health, rural oral health, Indigenous oral health and the oral health of people with special needs. This entails eight research projects within three research-based Universities of Adelaide, Western Australia and Tasmania. His main areas of research interest is the comparative inequity in oral health outcomes between people in rural and metropolitan areas, successful aging and oral health, indigenous oral health and the oral health of people with special needs.

Research Interest

Len's research aligns to the University's research theme of Better Health. Len's research interest are the comparative inequity in oral health outcomes between people in rural and metropolitan areas, successful aging and oral health, indigenous oral health and the oral health of people with special needs. Research is increasing showing a strong links between oral and general health, and that the causes of poor oral health are the same as the causes of poor general health.