Dr. Neamat Hassan (Dental) has been formally recognized by the United Arab Emirates Department of Health for her valuable contributions and dedicated efforts in revising the "General Dentist and Specialist Dentist Scope of Practice," which was published on Nov. 21, 2024.

Jordan Jacobs, Eugene Chon, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) recently published their manuscript, Longitudinal Screening for Oral High-Risk Non-HPV16 and Non-HPV18 Strains of Human Papillomavirus Reveals Increasing Prevalence among Adult and Pediatric Biorepository Samples: A Pilot Study, in the MDPI journal, Vaccines.

Austin Galbraith and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their research titled, "Evaluation of the Effects of Thermal Aging on the Surface Roughness of Novel Tooth-Colored Restorative Materials," in the Dentistry Journal. The results of this research were presented at the 29th Hinman Student Research Symposium in Memphis,…

The Southern Nevada Dental Society bestowed awards to UNLV School of Dental Medicine faculty members as part of its Gala and Awards Night in October. Dr. Jon Roxarzade earned the “SDM Faculty Member Award” for going above and beyond in teaching to shape the minds of future dentists and foster their growth, and Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo earned…

Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) delivered a continuing education course for the Academy of General Dentistry titled "Interesting Cases from Oral Radiology Practice" featuring some of our school’s challenging radiology cases. Mago also presented a poster with Vishal Sharma (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral…

Carrie Copa (Dental) joined the ACUE's course in Fostering a Culture of Belonging: Cohort D, Fall 2024 by completing the ACUE module on Cultivating an Inclusive Environment and earning a badge certificate.  In ACUE's module Cultivating an Inclusive Environment, faculty, staff, and leaders learn how to build a network of support for…

Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Payton Famuliner and Kyle Hodges (all Dental) recently published their study Oral Prevalence of Selenomonas noxia Differs among Orthodontic Patients Compared to Non-Orthodontic Controls: A Retrospective Biorepository Analysis in the MDPI journal Pathogens.  

Alicia Carlos, Hassan Ziada, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) published an article titled "Correlation Between Marginal Bone Loss Around Dental Implants and Various Systemic Diseases: A Cross-Sectional Study" in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry (affiliated with both the German Society of Oral Implantology and the Japanese…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) presented an oral pathology webinar for the Nevada Dental Hygienist Association titled "A Rainbow of Colorful Lesions and Diseases of the Oral Cavity.” Dr. Shah discussed how the color of an oral lesion can help guide diagnosis, noting, for example, most common white lesions can indicate keratosis or leukoplakia; red can be…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Salivary microbiome and biomarker characteristics of diabetics with periodontitis,” which published October 1 in the journal Molecular Oral Microbiology. The study aimed to  examine the characteristics of the salivary microbiome in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with or without…

Jacob Ozuna, Christine Nguyen, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their research article, "Color Stability of Different Restorative Approaches for the Masking of Silver Diamine Fluoride after Thermal Aging," in the International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry.

Drs. Hassan Ziada, Michael Webberson, Rassilee Sharma, and Neamat Hassan Abubakr (all Dental) have published a dental education research article titled "Qualitative Analysis of Student Reflections on Preclinical Dental Implant Education" in the Dentistry Journal. Their qualitative analysis concluded that students from the School of Dental…