Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) co-presented 鈥淩ole of Dental Providers in HPV Vaccination and Oropharyngeal Cancer Prevention鈥 during the National Oral Health Conference, which is the annual joint meeting for the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors and the American Association of Public Health Dentistry. One of the study鈥檚 key鈥
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib, Dr. Hassan Ziada, Dr. Neamat Hassan, Jana Negrescu and Laurenc Kodra (all Dental) co-authored 鈥淢olar Incisor Hypomineralization: Awareness among Postdoctoral Dental Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study,鈥 which published April 6 in Dentistry Journal. Negrescu and Kodra are fourth-year dental students.
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Austin Taylor and Brennan Truman (all Dental) with Keegan Lott, Paris Collier and Marc Ringor (all Medicine) published the "Assessment and Analysis of Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) Biomarkers and Viability Following Cryopreservation Reveals Novel Association with miR-218 Expression" in the journal EC Dental鈥
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) and Dr. Joe-Lawrence Bigcas (Medicine) presented a poster, 鈥淗ematologic Malignancy Presenting as Submandibular Duct Sialolithiasis鈥 during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology National Annual Meeting in April. The study鈥檚 results indicated that although metastases to the oral cavity are rare, they should鈥
Dr. Moni Ahmadian (Dental) authored and 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.
Karl Kingsley, Tengfei "Sam" Su, Mac Jackson, and Keaton Sacry (all Dental) recently published their manuscript, 鈥淟ongitudinal Analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) Trends among a Pediatric Dental Patient Population,鈥 in the journal EC Paediatrics.
Karl Kingsley, Katherine Howard, Dr. Victoria Sullivan, Dr. Jens Wilson, Tatiana Alhwayek, Sarah Swanbeck, and Gavin Banning (all Dental), co-authored 鈥淎ssessment of Sodium Diamine Fluoride (SDF) with Light Curing Technique: A Pilot Study of Antimicrobial Effects,鈥 which published April 7 in the MDPI Journal Methods and Protocols. Wilson is a鈥
Karl Kingsley, Rebecca Maginot, and Carolina Esteves (all Dental) have published their manuscript, "Changing Perspectives on Pediatric Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination among Dental Students and Residents Reveals Recent Increase in Vaccine Hesitancy," in the journal MDPI Vaccines.
Karl Kingsley, Melissa Solomon Kornhaber, Taylor Florence, and Trexton Davis (all Dental) recently published their manuscript, "Assessment of Oral Human Papillomavirus Prevalence in Pediatric and Adult Patients within a Multi-Ethnic Clinic Population," in the journal Dentistry.
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) has been elected as director-at-large for the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine 鈥 an independent, self-designated, nonprofit testing organization of dentists who treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliance therapy. The board鈥檚 purpose is to test knowledge and clinical proficiency in dental sleep鈥
Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored 鈥淕ingival Transcriptome of Innate Antimicrobial Factors and the Oral Microbiome With Aging and Periodontitis,鈥 which published March 7 in Frontiers in Oral Health.
Dr. Christina Demopoulos and Melissa Argueta (both Dental) surpassed their 10,000th screening within the Early Childhood Caries Prevention Project (ECCPP). Started in 2017, ECCPP aims to reduce the number of children with cavities by the time they enroll in kindergarten by providing preventive dental services in federally funded Early Head Start鈥