Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) was elected Councilor of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology by her fellow oral pathologists around the country. In this role, during her three-year term, she will help shape the future of the profession and the academy.

Members of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) voted for Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) to serve as the organization’s president-elect. During her one-year term, Demopoulos will be a non-voting member of all AAPHD committees, will assist the president in fulfilling the AAPHD’s mission, and will handle other duties as…

Karl Kingsley, Ching Shen, Justin Simpson, Brigham Clawson, and Steven Lam (all Dental) recently published "Prevalence of Oral Pathogen Slackia exigua among Clinical Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Saliva Samples" in the most recent issue of Microorganisms.  

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) presented two multi-institution collaborative sessions during the recent American Dental Education Association Annual Meeting. Her first presentation titled "New Dental Specialties Are Possible: Oral Medicine, Orofacial Pain and Dental Anesthesiology" examined the results of a student and faculty survey distributed to…

This article is the product of a research project conducted by two of the DMD graduates at the School of Dental Medicine (Audrey Morris and Patricia Grabowski) with the supervision of the faculty members at SDM, Dr. Tanya Al Talib and Dr. Neamat Hassan. 

Dr. Robin Weltman and Jessica Immonen, Ph.D., (both Dental Medicine) co-authored, “The Significance of Mylohyoid Muscle Release (MMR) in the Vertical and Horizontal Ridge Augmentation Surgeries; Clinical and Human Cadaver Analyses of the Techniques,” which published February 26 in the journal Genes. The study reviewed, analyzed, and discussed…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen, Ph.D., M.P.H., (both Dental Medicine) co-authored, “Sex effects on gingival transcriptomic patterns during initiation, progression, and resolution of periodontitis,” which published online ahead of print in Journal of Periodontology. The results demonstrated clear gene expression differences in healthy (…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) presented two multi-institution collaborative sessions during the American Dental Education Association annual meeting last month. Her first presentation titled, "New Dental Specialties Are Possible: Oral Medicine, Orofacial Pain and Dental Anesthesiology," examined the results of a student and faculty survey…

Katherine Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) with Keegan Lott, Paris Collier, and Marc Ringor (all Medicine) recently published the study, "Administration of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (bFGF) to Induce Neural Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSC) Isolates," in the journal Biomedicines.

An interdisciplinary collaboration between the dental and medical school resulted in a publication titled, "Extranodal manifestation of mantle cell lymphoma in the submandibular duct: A case report and review of literature." The publication was accepted in Otolaryngology Case Reports. It was written by fourth-year medical student Spencer…

Linh Nguyen and Class of 2022 alumnae Cynthia Le and Vivien Lee co-authored “Game-based learning in dental education,” which published online in the Journal of Dental Education. The four-year study compared game-based learning attitudes among students within different stages of their Doctor of Dental Medicine program. The results indicated that…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Extranodal manifestation of mantle cell lymphoma in the submandibular duct: A case report and review of literature,” which published in the March issue of Otolaryngology Case Reports.