Karl Kingsley and Jasnena Mavi (both Dental) recently published "Analysis of a Pediatric Dental School Patient Population Revealed Increasing Trends of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients: Implications for Pediatric Dental Public Health and Access to Care" in the journal Pediatric Reports.  

Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) co-presented “Why Does Sleep Matter?” during a student workshop of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine’s 30th anniversary meeting. She provided a brief overview of normal sleep, discussed the anatomy and physiology of obstructive sleep apnea, and explained the co-morbid implications of untreated obstructive…

Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) has been accepted to the 2022-23 UNLV President’s Fellows Program, which is a leadership development initiative that enables faculty members to acquire high-level administrative experience while working on strategic initiatives of interest to the central university leadership. The program intends to…

Dr. Jay Morgenstern (Dental) has been accepted to the 18-member cohort of the 2022-23 UNLV Leadership Experience. The program, which begins in August, helps emerging leaders expand their knowledge and skills while providing a glimpse into university administration, educates them about the complex operations of a large research institution, and…

Karl Kingsley, Megan Tufteland, Allison Lenon and Spencer Carlile (all Dental) published "Analysis and Evaluation of the Effects of Melatonin on Oral Keratinocytes: A Pilot Study" in the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research.     

Dr. Moni Ahmadian (Dental) 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. Nasopalatine duct cyst (NPDC) is the most common non-odontogenic developmental cyst of the jaw bone that arises in the midline anterior…

Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jyoti Mago (both Dental) co-presented their poster, “The Pivotal Role of Ultrasonography in Detecting Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers: A Review of Five Cases,” during the American Academy of Oral Medicine National Annual Meeting last month. The study found ultrasonography has superior soft tissue spatial resolution compared…

Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Comparative Analysis of Gene Expression Patterns for Oral Epithelial Cell Functions in Periodontitis,” which published May 23 in Frontiers in Oral Health, within the Oral Infections and Microbes section.

Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental) co-authored “Precision Periodontics Quantitative Measures of Disease Progression,” which published May 4 in the Journal of the American Dental Association.

Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) co-authored “Gingival Squamous Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as Localized Periodontal Disease in the Maxilla: A Case Report," which published electronically April 25 in The Open Dentistry Journal.   

Karl Kingsleyt, Crystal Viss, Gavin Banning, and Sarah Swanbeck (all Dental)) have published their research, "Differential Viability in Alpha-MEM Culturing Media May Predict Alternative Media Responsiveness in Dental Pulp Stem Cell (DPSC)," in the Journal of Advances in Biology and Biotechnology.   

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…