Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
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…
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Brendon Yu, and Nathaniel Kruse (all Dental) recently published their study, "Downstream Target Analysis for miR-365 among Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas Reveals Differential Associations with Chemoresistance," in the journal MDPI Life.
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) and Joshua Baker (Education) received a $5,000 grant from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis for a project focused on expanding the implementation of a behavior approach within Clark County to help reduce patients’ resistances to dental treatments. Research provides sufficient evidence that a…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) received the Community Faculty of the Year award from the UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology (ENT) during their residents graduation dinner. The award is for recognition and appreciation of significant contributions in ENT resident education. During her two years working with the department…
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) received a grant of $140,000 from the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy Medicaid Dental Services Program to expand the Seal Nevada South, school-based sealant outreach program. The award will be divided almost equally between the 2024-2025 school year and the 2025 - 2026 school year. The funding enables…
Victoria Sullivan, Arash Farhadian, Mayce Issa, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) recently published the study, "Analysis of Pediatric Pulpotomy, Pulpectomy, and Extractions in Primary Teeth Revealed No Significant Association with Subsequent Root Canal Therapy and Extractions in Permanent Teeth: A Retrospective Study," in the MDPI journal Pediatric…