Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine

Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) accepted an appointment by the American Dental Association to be a member of the United States Technical Advisory Group within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). As an independent, non-governmental organization, the ISO develops voluntary, consensus-based, market-relevant international standards that…
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) accepted an appointment to serve as vice chair of the Academic Dental Sleep Medicine Council Steering Committee. Her one-year term begins in May. The American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine is the leading national organization representing dentists who treat sleep-disordered breathing, which includes obstructive sleep…
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) co-presented “Role of Dental Providers in HPV Vaccination and Oropharyngeal Cancer Prevention” 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’s key…
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib, Dr. Hassan Ziada, Dr. Neamat Hassan, Jana Negrescu and Laurenc Kodra (all Dental) co-authored “Molar Incisor Hypomineralization: Awareness among Postdoctoral Dental Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study,” 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…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) and Dr. Joe-Lawrence Bigcas (Medicine) presented a poster, “Hematologic Malignancy Presenting as Submandibular Duct Sialolithiasis” during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology National Annual Meeting in April. The study’s results indicated that although metastases to the oral cavity are rare, they should…
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, “Longitudinal Analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) Trends among a Pediatric Dental Patient Population,” 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 “Assessment of Sodium Diamine Fluoride (SDF) with Light Curing Technique: A Pilot Study of Antimicrobial Effects,” which published April 7 in the MDPI Journal Methods and Protocols. Wilson is a…
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 – an independent, self-designated, nonprofit testing organization of dentists who treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliance therapy. The board’s purpose is to test knowledge and clinical proficiency in dental sleep…