Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine

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…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored three articles: “Oral Commensal Bacteria Differentially Modulate Epithelial Cell Death,” which appeared in Archives of Oral Biology; “Oral Microbiome and Gingival Tissue Apoptosis and Autophagy Transcriptomics,” which appeared in Frontiers of Immunology, and “Salivary Biomarkers For Discriminating…
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…
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 “Putting Teeth into Early…
John Colombo (Dental) co-authored “Innovative Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics in Cleft Palate Tissue Engineering,” which appeared in the September issue of Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, and “Modeling Hypoxia Induced Factors to Treat Pulpal Inflammation and Drive Regeneration,” which appeared in the Journal of Endodontics.
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.
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…
Philip Hyunbae Son, Ah Reum Yoo, Fiona Britton, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their research, "Differential Effects of Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) on Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DSPC)" in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Medical Discovery. Son and Yoo both are students who plan to graduate in 2021.
Andrew Graves and Karl Kingsley (both Dental), along with Sukdeep Sandhu, '20 DMD,  published their research "Expression of miR-720 is Correlated with DNMT3 in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas" in the journal ExRNA. Graves will graduate from the DMD program with the class of 2021.
Dr. James Mah (Dental) co-authored “Effect of Botulinum Toxin Injection on Asymmetric Lower Face with Chin Deviation,” which appeared in Toxins as part of a special issue addressing the application of botulinum toxin in clinical medicine.
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Gingival Tissue Autophagy Pathway Gene Expression Profiles in Periodontitis and Aging,” which appeared online ahead of print in the Journal of Periodontal Research.