Wenlian Zhou (Dental), Pearl Kim (Health Care Administration), Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences), Joseph Greenway (Center For Health Information Analysis), and Marcia Ditmyer (Dental) recently published an article, “Preventable Emergency Department Visits for Non-Traumatic Dental Conditions: Trends and Disparities in Nevada, 2009-2015," in…

Christina Demopoulos (Dental) leads the Seal Nevada South program for which the School of Dental Medicine has received a $7,500 award from Oral Health America. The program has provided more than 8,500 sealants to 2,500 children since 2010. Many of the children are uninsured and receive free follow-up dental care at the school’s Saturday Morning…

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Hypoxia Inducible Transcription Factors, HIF1A and HIF2A, Increase in Aging Mucosal Tissues,” which produced findings that hypoxic stress may exist in aging gingival tissues and may provide an explanatory molecular risk factor for pathogenic microbial challenges. The article appeared in the Jan. 16 issue of…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Patters of Systemic and Cervicovaginal Fluid Inflammatory Cytokines Throughout Pregnancy,” which determined that differences in cytokine distribution across different biological fluids are evident throughout pregnancy. The findings provide a framework for examining patterns of changes in cytokines…

Kenneth Izuora (School of Medicine), Ammar Yousif (School of Medicine), Gayle Allenback, Civon Gewelber (School of Dental Medicine) and Michael Neubauer (School of Dental Medicine) presented "Dental Loss Among Hospitalized Patients with and without Diabetes" at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and…

Dr. Karl Kingsley and Amy Tam (both Dental) published the research article "Microbial Ecology of Scardovia Wiggsiae-Positive and Negative Samples" in the Journal of Scientific Discovery in October.

Dr. Antonina Capurro, Dr. Elana Farfel, and Edward Lynch (all Dental) earned honors from the International Academy for Dental Facial Esthetics during the Greater New York Dental meeting. Capurro and Farfel graduated as academy fellows, and Lynch — also a fellow — received an award for Outstanding Research and Education in the Field of Dental…

Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) accepted an appointment to the dental advisory board for the Peter Emily International Veterinary Dental Foundation. The organization provides advanced veterinary dental services to captive exotic animals located at facilities within the United States and around the world. She has volunteered with the…

Edward Lynch (Dental) this month presented two full days of lectures and hands-on practicals for the British Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the Centre for Advanced Professional Practices (CAPP) in Dubai, UAE, which has the sole purpose of delivering excellence in dental continuing medical education in the Middle East and beyond. CAPP is an…

Dr. Michael Webberson (Dental) performed an evolving surgical procedure via live broadcast during the American Academy of Implant Dentistry annual meeting in San Diego. Titled “Guided Implant Placement Utilizing Ossendensification Burs: A Live Surgery,” the procedure demonstrated the use of a computer-generated surgical guide with a newly designed…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Comparative Analysis of Microbial Sensing Molecules in Mucosal Tissues with Aging,” which describes the use of a nonhuman primate model to evaluate changes in the expression of these sensing molecules related to aging in healthy gingival tissues. The article appeared in the October issue of Immunobiology.

Edward Lynch (Dental) was one of the main invited speakers who presented at the annual BDIA conference in the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham, England, in October. He spoke on the theme of “Putting Innovation into Practice” and presented the latest evidenced-based translational research especially related to innovations with…