Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
John Gallob (Dental Medicine) was part of a team that published an article titled "Anhydrous stannous fluoride toothpaste in dentin hypersensitivity: clinician-assessed and patient-reported outcomes from two controlled trials" in the July 2026 issue of Clinical Oral Investigations. In this article they investigated the clinical improvements and…
Jessica Immonen (Dental) course directed a dissection-based head and neck anatomy Continuing Education (CE) course for dentists at the Annual Academy for General Dentistry (AGD) Conference held in Las Vegas in the month of June. The course was filled by 30 licensed dentists participating in the dissection of 10 fresh frozen donors. All…
Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a virtual talk titled, “Strengthening Local Public Health Workforce Capacity through Experiential Learning: Outcomes from an ARPA-Funded Workforce Pipeline Initiative” at the 2026 NACCHO360 Conference, held in Louisville, KY form July 13-17, 2026. The…
Mark Adriatico, Nghi Tran, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) have published a new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Dental Medicine titled “Influence of Intraoral Scanner Type on the Marginal Fit of Digitally Fabricated Lithium Disilicate Crowns.” The study examined whether the type of intraoral scanner used in a digital workflow affects the…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to present "Red White and Urgent: The Clinical Warning Signs of Oral Cancer" during the national Academy of General Dentistry annual meeting last month. She discussed the steps of performing a comprehensive oral examination, identified risk factors, highlighted clinical features of oral cancers and…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole co-authored “Characteristics of the Health-Associated Oral Microbiome in Young Nonhuman Primates,” which published May 16 in the journal Molecular Oral Microbiology. The results provide seminal details of the oral microbiome in this disease model and underpin the ability to elucidate specific microbial changes that can occur…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Transcriptomic analysis of gingival tissues in resolved experimental periodontal lesions of nonhuman primates,” which published May 4 in Journal of Periodontology. The study, which used a preclinical model of experimental periodontitis in nonhuman primates to evaluate the biological features of resolved…
Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) authored “Carceral Systems and Oral Health Access," which explores the high proportion of incarcerated people suffering from untreated dental caries, periodontal disease, and other oral pathologies. The article was published in the April issue of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry within its…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Salivary Biological Responses to Nonsurgical Periodontal Treatment in Type 2 Diabetics,” which published May 5 in the JDR Clinical & Translational Research journal. The investigation evaluated the predictive capacity of the oral microbiome and host salivary biomarkers specific to treatment outcomes…
Stephanie Andrade and Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (both Dental) presented a poster titled "Do we refer who we screen?" at the 2026 American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 2, 2026.
Dr Hassan Ziada (Dental) has been invited to join and has accepted a position on the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Education, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature that considers articles on all aspects of education and training for healthcare professionals.
Dr. Sonal Shah and fourth-year dental student Jace Porter (both Dental) co-authored and presented a poster abstract titled "What's Behind the Red Spots? A Rare Case of Mucocutaneous Telangiectasias" during the American Academy of Oral Medicine annual meeting last month. The case centered on a female with facial, lip, palatal, tongue, and fingertip…