dr. Stanimira Kalaykova

Over Stanimira Kalaykova

BIG registration number: 39908869202
BROK registration number: 10764

Mrs.dr. Stanimira Sparreboom-Kalaykova graduated as a dentist in 2003. Thereafter she completed a three-year postgraduate training at the Academic Center for Dentistry in Amsterdam (ACTA, The Netherlands) to become in 2006 a dentist specialized in Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction (in Dutch, ‘tandarts-gnatholoog’, certified by the Dutch Society for Gnathology and Prosthetic Dentistry, NVGPT). In September 2010, she defended her PhD thesis at ACTA and the University of Amsterdam on the subject ‘Internal derangements of the Temporomandibular Joint’. Between 2009 and 2011, she also worked as a specialized dentist at the Center for Special Dentistry of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and a dental referral practice in Hoorn. Since 2011 she works as assistant professor and specialized dentist at the Department of Dentistry of RadboudUMC in Nijmegen. Among others, she is head of the three-year postgraduate training in Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, and coordinator of research, (under)graduate education and clinical care within this dental discipline. Since 2004 she is a member of NVGPT, and since 2005 also a member of the European Academy of Craniomandibular Disorders and its new version, the European Academy of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction. Since 2019 she is also a board member at NVGPT. The focus of her work is on Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction (including dental sleep medicne), with special interest in such pain and dysfunctions in special needs patient groups.

Onder­scheidingen

• 2012 Grant Cornelia Foundation, research project ‘Mandibular function of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy’
• 2013 Grant TMJ Solutions BV, research project ‘Bruxism’
• 2015 Grant Foundation BETER, research project ‘NF1 and the masticatory system’
• 2015 Grant ZonMw, symposium ‘Dental and orofacial aspects of rare diseases’
• 2016 Grant Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, research project ‘Longitudinal study on bulbar muscle dysfunction in SMA 2 & 3’
• 2018 Grant Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Tandheelkunde, research project ‘Bruxism and tooth wear’
• 2019 Best Publication Award 2019 by NVGPT, paper ‘Impact of restorative treatment of tooth wear upon masticatory performance’ by Kalaykova et al, Journal of Dentistry 2019