Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Sex effects on gingival transcriptomic patterns during initiation, progression, and resolution of periodontitis,” which published February 28 in Journal of Periodontology. The study used a nonhuman primate (Macaca mulatta) model of experimental ligature-induced periodontitis…
Victoria Sullivan, Katherine Howard, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) have published their latest study with pediatric residents Melika Shayegh, Praneeti Sodhi, and dental students Chase Sorenson, Jackson Downey, Summer Lin, and Yuxin Jiang on the oral pathogen Scardovia wiggsiae in the latest issue of the MDPI journal Methods and Protocols.
Dr. Diana Lopez (UNLV Alumni), Dr. Hassan Ziada, and Dr. Neamat Hassan (both Dental) published a research article titled, “Influence of thermal aging on the marginal integrity of computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing fabricated crowns." The article was published online in the Journal of Dental Sciences. The study showed that…
Jyoti Mago (Clinical Sciences, Dental) recently gave a Keynote Presentation on, "Usefulness of ChatGPT in oral and maxillofacial radiology," at Global Tech Summit, Paris, 2023.
Jyoti Mago (Clinical Sciences, Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) have published research titled, “The Potential Usefulness of ChatGPT in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology” in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. The research shows ChatGPT-3 being efficient in describing the…
Drs. Neamat Hassan and Hassan Ziada (both Dental) co-authored a collaborative research article titled, “Students’ Experience of Online Learning in a Blended Learning Setting: A Qualitative Evaluation.” This paper was published in Education Sciences in the special issue of "Current Challenges in Digital Higher Education."  
Students Tyler Pisciotta, Robert Schwartz, and professor Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their work "Evaluation of Blood Type and Oral Microbial Prevalence Suggests Potential Modulation of Selenomonas noxia but not Scardovia wiggsiae by Oral Antibodies - A Pilot Study" in the latest issue of EC Dental Science 
Dr. Maryam Tabrizi, (Dental) a geriatric oral health specialist, is a now the elected delegate in Southern Nevada Dental Society. She was elected to join the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for a panel on, "Promoting Age Inclusivity to Foster Geriatric Integration on Social Issues," in Denver, Colorado. She…
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Clinical Sciences, Dental) delivered a Keynote Presentation at the 4th Online Conference on, "Clinical Dentistry and Oral Health," held June 26-27. This was a virtual event on the topic, "Incidental and Interesting Findings on Cone Beam Images from Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Practice."
Dr. Hassan Ziada and Dr. Neamat Hassan (both Dental) presented at the 101st General Session & Exhibition of the International Association of Dental Research, the 9th Meeting of the Latin American Region, and the 12th World Congress on Preventive Dentistry meeting, held in Bogota, Colombia, from June 20-24. Ziada's presentation was in…
Jyoti Mago (Clinical Sciences, Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) in association with Amar Kanekar of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have published an article titled, “Applications of ChatGPT in oral healthcare: a current and brief overview” in the Global Journal for Research Analysis. The article…
Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental) co-authored “Preclinical teaching of periodontal surgical concepts using common instructional models: A comparative assessment,” which published online ahead of print June 2 in the Journal of Dental Education. The study evaluated and compared the effectiveness of two preclinical instructional surgical models:…