Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
The Southern Nevada Dental Society bestowed awards to UNLV School of Dental Medicine faculty members as part of its Gala and Awards Night in October. Dr. Jon Roxarzade earned the “SDM Faculty Member Award” for going above and beyond in teaching to shape the minds of future dentists and foster their growth, and Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo earned…
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) delivered a continuing education course for the Academy of General Dentistry titled "Interesting Cases from Oral Radiology Practice" featuring some of our school’s challenging radiology cases.
Mago also presented a poster with Vishal Sharma (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral…
Carrie Copa (Dental) joined the ACUE's course in Fostering a Culture of Belonging: Cohort D, Fall 2024 by completing the ACUE module on Cultivating an Inclusive Environment and earning a badge certificate.
In ACUE's module Cultivating an Inclusive Environment, faculty, staff, and leaders learn how to build a network of support for…
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Payton Famuliner and Kyle Hodges (all Dental) recently published their study Oral Prevalence of Selenomonas noxia Differs among Orthodontic Patients Compared to Non-Orthodontic Controls: A Retrospective Biorepository Analysis in the MDPI journal Pathogens.
Alicia Carlos, Hassan Ziada, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) published an article titled "Correlation Between Marginal Bone Loss Around Dental Implants and Various Systemic Diseases: A Cross-Sectional Study" in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry (affiliated with both the German Society of Oral Implantology and the Japanese…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) presented an oral pathology webinar for the Nevada Dental Hygienist Association titled "A Rainbow of Colorful Lesions and Diseases of the Oral Cavity.” Dr. Shah discussed how the color of an oral lesion can help guide diagnosis, noting, for example, most common white lesions can indicate keratosis or leukoplakia; red can be…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Salivary microbiome and biomarker characteristics of diabetics with periodontitis,” which published October 1 in the journal Molecular Oral Microbiology. The study aimed to examine the characteristics of the salivary microbiome in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with or without…
Jacob Ozuna, Christine Nguyen, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their research article, "Color Stability of Different Restorative Approaches for the Masking of Silver Diamine Fluoride after Thermal Aging," in the International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry.
Drs. Hassan Ziada, Michael Webberson, Rassilee Sharma, and Neamat Hassan Abubakr (all Dental) have published a dental education research article titled "Qualitative Analysis of Student Reflections on Preclinical Dental Implant Education" in the Dentistry Journal. Their qualitative analysis concluded that students from the School of Dental…
Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (Medicine), Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental), and ENT resident Dr. William Montagne (Medicine), along with a colleague at Washington State University, co-authored "Diagnosis and Prognostic Implications of Primary Intraosseous Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review," which published Sept. 11 in the journal Cureus. The article…
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine), Amalie Alver (Medicine), Arpita Basu (Kinesiology), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) published “The Association of Dietary Micronutrient Intake and Systemic Inflammation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study” in the journal…
Dr. Maryam Tabrizi (Dental) accepted an appointment to the 13-member Advisory Committee on the State Program for Oral Health, which is charged with advising and making recommendations to the Division of Public and Behavioral Health concerning the Oral Health Program. Advisory committee members serve for two years and may be reappointed to another…