A NEW DUAL DMD/MBA program annouced by Dean Chip Hunter (Fox) and Dean Amid Ismail (Temple Dental) will incorporate several dental public health and practice management courses in the requirement for completing the MBA degree. To earn an MBA degree, candidates must complete a total of 42 credits in the DMD program (30 core credits and 12 elective credits). New cohorts start in the MBA programs...
EARLY CHILDHOOD CARIES (ECC) is the most common chronic childhood disease and a significant public health problem, which can destroy teeth in young children and cause long-term, systemic health issues. Recent research links this potentially painful and costly dental disease with oral fungal infections in early life, namely oral thrush, which promotes the pathogenic biofilm...
THE ICPR STUDY is in the third year of conduct and has enrolled 590 participants who will be followed up for 24 months to study the progression of periodontal diseases using baseline saliva and plaque as biomarkers. Eight CE sessions about different topics in research methods have been presented and links to the recording can...
DR. SANTIAGO ORREGO HAS received a $435,875 three-year research grant from NIH to develop a new voice- or vibration-activated “smart adhesive” designed to tackle the biggest reason tooth-colored fillings fail: recurrent decay that starts at the tiny space where the tooth and restoration meet. Unlike today’s adhesives, which behave like passive glue, this next-generation bonding layer is built...
DR. JAY PATEL IS a co-PI on a new grant from the AAO (American Association for Orthodontics). The project builds and tests natural language processing models to automatically extract important orthodontic information from clinical notes in electronic health records, where most of the data is currently buried in free text. By turning these unstructured notes...
MS. MARGARET ELIZABETH JUNKIN, a Master of Science in Oral Health Sciences candidate in the Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry, Class of 2027, has recently published a Health Policy Perspectives paper addressing the critical public health issue of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). She is the daughter of Deborah Hunter Junkin, ’95, DMD, and Andrew B....
A Cross-Sectional Study IFEANYI DAVID OKOYE, AN advanced-standing DMD candidate at Temple Dental, is researching the relationship between infant feeding practices, oral hygiene behaviors, and the presence of oral fungal colonization. In this study of 62 caregiver–infant dyads, we evaluated feeding patterns, oral hygiene habits, and history of oral thrush in relation to intraoral fungal...
CHINMAYA AGARWAL RECEIVED an Osteo Science Foundation Research Award which provides $5,000 in funding for one year on the theme of regenerative medicine. His project focuses on developing and evaluating coatings on implants to assess their bone regeneration potential; this work is being conducted at the Smart Dental Biomaterials Lab under the guidance of Dr....
“I come from a family of doctors who influenced and inspired me early on. I understood the importance of education and how it can affect an entire generation,” says Dr. Lara Bakaeen, ’98, who practices in Jordan and recently won her second award from the American College of Prosthodontics (Shown here after winning her first ACP award in 1995).
THE PIVOTAL POINT, says Dr. Lores, was an art class in high school. That’s when he decided working with clay to form a human skull reminded him of dental casts he had seen his mother, uncle, and grandfather create. With so many family members in the field, he says, “Dentistry was in my blood.” Yet,...
