Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Neamat Hassan supervised third-year student McKay Tucker (both Dental Medicine) who earned one of five “Most Outstanding” clinical research awards during the 27th Annual Hinman Student Research Symposium for their project “Color Stability of Nano-Hybrid and Universal Composite Resin Restorations.” Tucker was one of the 101 presenting students…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole co-authored “Immunoglobulin gene expression profiles and microbiome characteristics in periodontitis in nonhuman primates,” which published August 2022 in the journal Molecular Biology.
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Medications Associated with Oral Lichenoid Lesions: A Single Site Retrospective Study,” which published as the cover story in the November 2022 issue of New York State Dental Journal.
Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Temperature Changes During Implant Osteotomy Preparations in Human Cadaver Tibiae Comparing MIS Straight Drills with Densah Burrs,” which published September 24 in the journal Genes. Weltman also co-authored “A Long-term Retrospective Analysis of Single Tooth Implants and Endodontic Therapies in a…
Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), Chia-Laing Dai (Teaching and Learning), and David Cappelli (Dental Medicine) have published a manuscript titled, “Predicting Flossing through the Application of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change among…
Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental Medicine) accepted an invitation to be one of the featured “DENT Talks” speakers during SmileCon 2022. Sponsored by the American Dental Association, DENT Talks provide diverse viewpoints about different facets of dentistry. This year’s three themes were Human Challenge, Road Less Traveled, and Love of…
Dr. Christine Ancajas, Dr. Georgia Dounis, and Dr. Hassan Ziada (all Dental Medicine) received their inductions as fellows of the American College of Dentists during the American Dental Association’s annual meeting in October. The American College of Dentists strives to advance excellence, ethics, professionalism, and leadership in dentistry, and…
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental Medicine) and alumna Dr. Nicole Ameli (DMD ‘19) presented their poster titled, “Ultrasonography in the diagnosis of benign pathologic entities,” during the recent AAOMR (American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology) meeting. Their work concluded that ultrasonography has the greatest soft tissue spatial resolution.…
Daniel Cheng, Jennifer Baynosa, Daniel Kirgan, Charles St Hill (Medicine), Chad Cross (Public Health), and Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) published the paper, "Comparing the effect of distance to treatment facility on reconstruction and breast conservation therapy for early-stage invasive ductal carcinoma between the nation and the mountain…
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Brady Petersen, Carl Yu, and Samuel Hutchings (all Dental) published their study, "Differential Expression of Cellular and Exosomal MicroRNA Isolated from Oral Cancer Cells and their Resistance to Chemotherapy," in the latest issue of Current Research in Dentistry.
Elena Farfel, Karl Kingsley (both Dental) and recent DMD graduates Cody Buhler, Scott Parker and Haley Whalen recently published "Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester (CAPE) Effects on Dental Pulp Stem Cell (DPSC) Proliferation and Viability" in the journal EC Dental Science.
Dr. David Cappelli (Dental) received a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) award of $1.5 million to develop the “Nevada Predoctoral Rural Oral Health and Health Equity Program,” which will focus on the oral health needs of underserved people living in rural and frontier areas within the Silver State. The five-year grant will help…