Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) and Joshua Baker (Education) received a $5,000 grant from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis for a project focused on expanding the implementation of a behavior approach within Clark County to help reduce patients’ resistances to dental treatments. Research provides sufficient evidence that a…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) received the Community Faculty of the Year award from the UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology (ENT) during their residents graduation dinner. The award is for recognition and appreciation of significant contributions in ENT resident education. During her two years working with the department…
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) received a grant of $140,000 from the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy Medicaid Dental Services Program to expand the Seal Nevada South, school-based sealant outreach program. The award will be divided almost equally between the 2024-2025 school year and the 2025 - 2026 school year. The funding enables…
Victoria Sullivan, Arash Farhadian, Mayce Issa, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) recently published the study, "Analysis of Pediatric Pulpotomy, Pulpectomy, and Extractions in Primary Teeth Revealed No Significant Association with Subsequent Root Canal Therapy and Extractions in Permanent Teeth: A Retrospective Study," in the MDPI journal Pediatric…
Jessica Immonen (Dental), Ph.D., M.S., received the Clinical Anatomy Senior Faculty Award for her presentation at the annual American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) Conference recently held at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York. Her presentation was titled, "Biomechanics of Bruxism Determine the Sites of Severe TMJ…
Philip Punzalan, Tanya Al-Talib, Anthony Fusco, Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their study titled, "Effect of Dietary Components on the Shear Bond Strength of Orthodontics Brackets after Thermal Aging," in the Open Journal of Stomatology.
Jessica Immonen (Dental), Linh Nguyen (Dental) and Jason Ciccotelli (Physical Therapy) published an article titled "Biomechanics of Bruxism Potentially Determine the Sites of Severe TMJ Osteoarthritis" in Biomechanics. They mentored a group of dental students and a dental resident in their work (David Patterson, Samantha Pipkin, Nathan Kent,…
Victoria Sullivan, Anna Roman, Carly Johnson, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental Medicine) published their study "Analysis of Pediatric Oral Health Outcomes Reveals Differences Between English and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and Non-English Speakers" in the journal EC Pediatrics.
Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Transcriptomic features of programmed and inflammatory cell death in gingival tissues,” which published April 16 in the journal Oral Diseases. The study used an experimental periodontitis model to detail the gingival transcriptome related to cell death processes of pyroptosis,…
Katherine Howard, Kate Hendricks, Tyler Hatch, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their manuscript, "Screening for Selenomonas noxia in a Pediatric and Adolescent Patient Population Reveals Differential Oral Prevalence across Age Groups," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Dr. James Mah (Dental) co-authored “Biomechanics of clear aligner therapy: Assessing the influence of tooth position and flat trimline height in translational movements,” which was published online April 29 in the journal Orthodontics & Craniofacial Research. Despite the popularity of clear aligner orthodontic treatments, many aspects…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to serve as a seminar speaker during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting where she presented two challenging patient cases of oral manifestations of genetic and systemic diseases.
Shah also co-presented an abstract as a poster during the American Academy of Oral…