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…

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Immunoglobulin Gene Expression Profiles and Microbiome Characteristics in Periodontitis in Nonhuman Primates,” which published online ahead of print in the journal Molecular Immunology.

Dr. Christine Demopoulos (Dental) co-authored “Racial and Oral Health Equity in Dental School Curricula,” which published online ahead of print in Journal of Public Health Dentistry.  

Drs. Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Gingival Tissue Antibody Gene Utilization in Aging and Periodontitis,” which published online ahead of print in Journal of Periodontal Research.

Drs. Tanya Al-Talib and Neamat Hassan (both Dental), along with School of Dental Medicine alumnus Kyle Cousineau, '22, co-authored “Retrospective Evaluation of the Prevalence of Diastema among an Adult Population,” which published June 15 in Open Journal of Stomatology.

Karl Kingsley and Jasnena Mavi (both Dental) recently published "Analysis of a Pediatric Dental School Patient Population Revealed Increasing Trends of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients: Implications for Pediatric Dental Public Health and Access to Care" in the journal Pediatric Reports.  

Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) co-presented “Why Does Sleep Matter?” during a student workshop of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine’s 30th anniversary meeting. She provided a brief overview of normal sleep, discussed the anatomy and physiology of obstructive sleep apnea, and explained the co-morbid implications of untreated obstructive…

Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) has been accepted to the 2022-23 UNLV President’s Fellows Program, which is a leadership development initiative that enables faculty members to acquire high-level administrative experience while working on strategic initiatives of interest to the central university leadership. The program intends to…

Dr. Jay Morgenstern (Dental) has been accepted to the 18-member cohort of the 2022-23 UNLV Leadership Experience. The program, which begins in August, helps emerging leaders expand their knowledge and skills while providing a glimpse into university administration, educates them about the complex operations of a large research institution, and…

Karl Kingsley, Megan Tufteland, Allison Lenon and Spencer Carlile (all Dental) published "Analysis and Evaluation of the Effects of Melatonin on Oral Keratinocytes: A Pilot Study" in the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research.     

Dr. Moni Ahmadian (Dental) presented "An Unusually Expansile Nasopalatine Duct Cyst Mimicking a Nasolabial Cyst" as a poster during the 2022 American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting. Nasopalatine duct cyst (NPDC) is the most common non-odontogenic developmental cyst of the jaw bone that arises in the midline anterior…

Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jyoti Mago (both Dental) co-presented their poster, “The Pivotal Role of Ultrasonography in Detecting Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers: A Review of Five Cases,” during the American Academy of Oral Medicine National Annual Meeting last month. The study found ultrasonography has superior soft tissue spatial resolution compared…