Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Drs. Neamat Hassan and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) are serving as guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of Functional Biomaterials titled "Recent Advances in Dental Implants and Biomaterials."
Dr. Ron Lemon (Dental) accepted a nomination to join a committee responsible for helping redesign the Western Regional Examining Board competency assessment exam that 40 states 鈥 including Nevada 鈥 use to license dental professionals. During his one-year term, Lemon and his fellow committee members will re-evaluate multiple aspects of the exam,鈥
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) earned diplomate status from the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM), which designates her as having the technical skill, in-颅depth knowledge, and professional judgment in providing oral appliance therapy to treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. The ABDSM credential is widely recognized as the gold鈥
Dr. Marcia Ditmyer (Dental) co-authored two articles: 鈥淎merican College of Rheumatology Workforce Study and Demand Projections of Pediatric Rheumatology Workforce, 2015-2030,鈥 which appeared ahead of print in Arthritis Care & Research; and 鈥淢odeling the Hepatology Workforce in the United States: A Predicted Critical Shortage,鈥 which appeared鈥
Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) co-authored "The Impact of Impression Coping Geometrical Design on Accuracy of Implant Impressions: An Experimental Study," which appeared this month in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. The study evaluated the effect of implant impression coping geometrical designs on the accuracy鈥
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored three articles: 鈥淥ral Commensal Bacteria Differentially Modulate Epithelial Cell Death,鈥 which appeared in Archives of Oral Biology; 鈥淥ral Microbiome and Gingival Tissue Apoptosis and Autophagy Transcriptomics,鈥 which appeared in Frontiers of Immunology, and 鈥淪alivary Biomarkers For Discriminating鈥
Dr. Karl Kingsley and Dr. Melissa Kornhaber (both Dental) presented their work, "Assessment of the Changes in Prevalence of Ora Human Papillomavirus in Pediatric Patients within a Multi-ethnic Pediatric Clinic Population," in a virtual presentation to the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases last month.
Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) coauthored "The Impact of Impression Coping Geometrical Design on Accuracy of Implant Impressions: An Experimental Study," which appeared this month in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of implant impression coping鈥
Dr. Christina Demopoulos, Dr. Flora Phipps, Dr. Marcia Ditmyer, and Dr. Lily T. Garcia (all Dental) accepted invitations to speak during the 2020 Nevada Public Health Association Annual (Virtual) Conference, which was themed Creating the Healthiest Nevada: Putting Prevention into Practice. Dr. Demopoulos presented 鈥淧utting Teeth into Early鈥
Jordan Ringer, Bryan Morrison, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their research, "Evaluation of Hyaluronic Acid to Modulate Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Growth In Vitro" in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Functional Biomaterials. Ringer and Morrison are Dental Medicine students who plan to graduate in 2021.
John Colombo (Dental) co-authored 鈥淚nnovative Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics in Cleft Palate Tissue Engineering,鈥 which appeared in the September issue of Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, and 鈥淢odeling Hypoxia Induced Factors to Treat Pulpal Inflammation and Drive Regeneration,鈥 which appeared in the Journal of Endodontics.
Nareh Eshgian, Tanya Al-Talib, Stanley Nelson, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental Medicine) published a clinical research study on "Prevalence of hyperdontia, hypodontia, and concomitant hypo-hyperdontia" in the Journal of Dental Sciences. Anomalies in human dentition are some of the most common occurrences of congenital abnormalities. The鈥