Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Elena Farfel (Dental) has published her study "Propolis of Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester (CAPE) Inhibits Growth and Viability in Multiple Oral Cancer Cell Lines" in the International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies with co-authors Whitney Saarem, Fang Yu Wang, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental).
Dr. Edward Lynch (Dental) accepted an invitation to speak during the annual Saudi International Dental Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the three-day conference, he lectured about evidenced-based operative dentistry and provided updates about the latest methods for providing more effective clinical dentistry. He then visited the King…
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Biologic Modeling of Periodontal Disease Progression,” which determined the synergistic utility of bacterial and inflammatory biomarkers from saliva, serum, and plaque in predicting disease progression. The article appeared in the January 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology.
Mark Whiting and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) published their manuscript "Expression of microRNA miR-27, miR-124 and miR-218 Among Dental Pulp Stem Cell (DPSC) Isolates" in the journal Current Research in Dentistry.
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) and Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored “Serum Nutrient Levels and Aging Effects on Periodontitis,” which suggests that improving specific nutrient intake may provide a novel strategy to affect the significant increase in periodontitis that occurs with aging. The article appeared in the December…
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Biofilm Induced Profiles of Immune Response Gene Expression by Oral Epithelial Cells,” which examined the oral epithelial immunotranscriptome response patterns modulated by oral bacterial planktonic or biofilm challenge, and determined that a wide array of immune genes were regulated by oral bacterial…
Dr. Edward Lynch (Dental) led a presentation and workshop about silver diamine fluoride (SDF) during the Greater New York Dental Meeting, which focused on a UNLV School of Dental Medicine systematic research review, providing full evidenced-based guidelines for using SDF.
He also received an award for excellence in research from the International…
Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (Dental) and Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored “Age and Periodontal Health – Immunological View,” which focused on biological aging instead of chronological aging to help account for population variation in disease expression. The findings may suggest that chronic periodontitis represents…
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) received the “Outstanding Community Partner” award from Acelero Learning for her continued commitment and advocacy to children, families, and Acelero Learning Clark County Head Start programs. She is leading an early childhood caries prevention project sponsored by Oral Health America that is designed to reduce…
Dr. Edward Lynch (Dental) accepted an invitation to be the primary speaker during the International Frontiers in Ozone Conference, and Ozone Therapies Group annual meeting. While there, he presented more than 14 hours of lectures and workshops to a collection of dentists, doctors, veterinarians, scientists, and academics from around the world. He…
Kenneth Izuora, Ammar Yousif (both Medicine), Civon Gewelber, and Michael Neubauer (both Dental), along with Gayle Allenback, are the authors of an article appearing in the Journal of Investigative Medicine. This was the result of an investigator-initiated study conducted at the University Medical Center (UMC) that looked at health…
Karl Kingsley and Joseph Cinelli (both Dental) published the manuscript "Assessment of Dental Pulp Stem Cell (DPSC) Biomarkers Following Induction with Bone Morphogenic Protein 2 (BMP-2)" in the Journal of Advances in Biology and Biotechnology with Erica Nguyen (UNLV undergraduate student).