Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences); Kenneth Izuora (Medicine); Jefferson Kinney, Arnold Salazar (both Brain Health); and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) published a randomized double-blind controlled trial in Nutrients on the effects of strawberry antioxidant supplementation in adults with the metabolic syndrome. The results revealed…
Dr. Antonina Capurro (Dental) and Dr. Amy Tongsiri, '08 DMD, joined hundreds of national and international dentists, dental hygienists, health researchers, dental/health educators, legislators, public health officials, Medicaid/CHIP dental program staff/consultants, state/territorial dental directors, and county/city/local dental directors at…
Jacob Ozuna, Benjamin Barborka, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) published a paper, "A Retrospective Evaluation of the Prevalence of Cracked Teeth Among an Adult Population in Nevada," in the European Endodontic Journal that appeared online ahead of print. The paper identified the distribution and characteristics of cracked teeth among patients…
Nathan Anderson, Adam Lords, Ronald Laux, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) just published a paper, "Retrospective Analysis of the Risks Factors of Peri-implantitis," in The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice. The paper evaluated the risk factors and their implication on the development of peri-implant diseases. Anderson and Lords are…
Drs. Ji Won Yoo and David Byun (Medicine), Jay Shen (Public Health), Dr. Georgia Dounis (Dental), and Seong-min Park (Criminal Justice), along with Dr. Se Won Lee of Mountain View Hospital and past visiting scholars Sung-Youn Chun, Hee-Taik Kang, Jinwook Hwang, Young-Jae Lee, and Dong-Hun Han published a paper "…
Joshua Polanski, Karl Kingsley, Ah Reum Yoo, and Philip Son (all Dental) recently published the article "Dietary Habits and Anthropometric Measures of a Dental Student Population" in the European Journal of Nutrition and Food Safety. 
Dr. Hassan Ziada, Dr. Marcia Ditmyer, and Dr. Neamat Hassan (all Dental) co-authored, "Reflections of Psychomotor Skill Development in Preclinical Simulation: A Qualitative Analysis," which appeared online this month in the European Journal of Dental Education.       
Dr. Linh Nguyen and Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (both Dental) co-authored “Biological Aging and Periodontal Disease: Analysis of NHANES (2001-2002),” which appeared online ahead of print last month in the JDR Clinical and Translational Research.
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Du Feng (Nursing), Dr. Petar Planinic, Dr. James Alexander (both Medicine), and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Dietary Blueberry and Soluble Fiber Supplementation Reduces Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Women with Obesity in a Randomized Controlled Trial,” which appeared in the Journal of…
Karl Kingsley, Melissa Trumbo, Namgu Kim, Beanca Samiano, Matthew Marrujo. Patrick Perkins, Kevin Foote, and Katherine M. Howard (all Dental) published the manuscript "Scardovia wiggsiae and Streptococcus sobrinus Prevalence among Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Patients" in the current issue of the Microbiology…
Katherine M. Howard, Namgu Kim, Melissa Trumbo, Patrick Perkins, Kevin Foote, Beanca Samiano, Matthew Marrujo and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published the manuscript "Comparing the Incidence and Prevalence of Oral Microbial Pathogens Selenomonas noxia and Streptococcus mitis within the UNLV-SDM Clinical Patient Population" in the current…
Drs. Hassan Ziada, Marcia Ditmyer and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) published a paper, "Reflections of Psychomotor Skill Development in Preclinical Simulation: A Qualitative Analysis," in the European Journal of Dental Education, that appeared online on this month. The paper investigated dental students' insight of their progression…