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Research Focus Areas
Faculty Research Interests
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- Relationship between Safety-net Oral Health Care Practices and Income among American Indian/Alaska Native, Black, and Hispanic/Latino Dentists (2025)
- Gastrointestinal distress as a potential mediator between stress and periodontal inflammation (2023)
- Preconception Periodontitis and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in a Prospective Cohort Study (2023)
- Photo-Enhanced Health Promotion Messages to Target Reduction in Dietary Sugar among Residents of Public Housing (2023)
- Perceived racism associated with declines in self-rated oral health among U.S. Black women (2023)
- Recruitment and Enrollment of Low-income, Minority Residents of Urban Public Housing into Research (2023)
- Health-based homophily in public housing developments (2023)
- Methods to madness: The utility of complex systems science in a mad, mad world (2023)
- Periodontitis is associated with an increased hazard of mortality in a longitudinal cohort study over 50 years (2023)
- Perceived experiences of racism linked to dental fear and anxiety among Black women (2023)
- Exploring periodontitis misclassification mechanisms under partial-mouth protocols (2022)
- Simulation of Random Differential Periodontitis Outcome Misclassification with Perfect Specificity (2022)
- Development and validation of a latent, multidimensional, self-report periodontal disease measure (2021)
- Community-based sugar-sweetened beverage intervention associated with short-term improvements in self-rated oral health (2021)
- Self-reported periodontitis and fecundability in a population of pregnancy planners (2021)
- Third-Molar Status and Risk of Loss of Adjacent Second Molars (2021)
- Oxidative stress links periodontal inflammation and renal function (2021)
- A measure development study of sugar-sweetened beverage-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and intention among urban, low-income adults (2021)
- A quantitative bias analysis to assess the impact of unmeasured confounding on associations between diabetes and periodontitis (2021)
- The impact of periodontitis exposure misclassification bias from partial-mouth measurements on association with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (2020)
- Complex Systems Model of Dynamic Mechanisms of Early Childhood Caries Development (2020)
- Survey of Dental Researchers' Perceptions of Sexual Harassment at AADR Conferences: 2015 to 2018 (2020)
- Predictors of self-reported oral health in the Black Women's Health Study (2020)
- A storytelling intervention reduces childhood caries risk behaviors among American Indian and Alaska Native mothers in Northern California (2019)
- Cross-cultural adaptation of a Spanish version of a previously validated HPV survey that evaluates dental students' knowledge, perception and clinical practices in Latin America (2022)
- Minimally Invasive Techniques Used for Caries Management in Dentistry. A Review (2021)
- The perspectives, barriers, and willingness of Utah dentists to engage in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine practices (2020)
- A Multi-state Evaluation of Oral Health Students' Knowledge of Human Papillomavirus-Related Oropharyngeal Cancer and HPV Vaccination (2020)
- US oral health students' willingness to train and administer the HPV vaccine in dental practices (2019)
- Comprehensive oral care improves treatment outcomes in male and female patients with high-severity and chronic substance use disorders (2019)
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- Malakoplakia Involving the Maxilla: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature (2024)
- Dysgenetic Polycystic Disease of the Salivary Glands: A Case Report of This Rare Entity Occurring for the First Time in the Minor Salivary Glands of the Tongue, and a Review of the Literature (2024)
- CD1a is not effective in distinguishing calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumors from amyloid-rich central odontogenic fibroma (2024)
- Clinical Accuracy of Differential Diagnoses for Submitted Biopsy Cases (2022)
- Orofacial granulomatosis: A case treated with azithromycin pulse therapy, review of the literature and an algorithm for diagnosis (2020)
- Comprehensive oral care improves treatment outcomes in male and female patients with high-severity and chronic substance use disorders (2019)
- Prenatal exposure to environmental toxins and comprehensive dental findings in a population cohort of children (2024)
- Cross-cultural adaptation of a Spanish version of a previously validated HPV survey that evaluates dental students' knowledge, perception and clinical practices in Latin America (2022)
- A Multi-state Evaluation of Oral Health Students' Knowledge of Human Papillomavirus-Related Oropharyngeal Cancer and HPV Vaccination (2020)
- US oral health students' willingness to train and administer the HPV vaccine in dental practices (2019)
- Safety, simulation, and asymptomatic testing: Navigating the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (2020)
- N-acetyl cysteine protects pulp cells from resin toxins in vivo (2008)
- A proposal for a new classification of lesions of exposed tooth surfaces (2006)
- Surface hardness change of restorative filling materials stored in saliva (2001)
- Rapid and quantitative detection of Streptococcus mutans with species-specific monoclonal antibodies (1998)
- A study of component release from resin pit and fissure sealants in vitro (1997)
- Diffusion of monomers from bonding resin-resin composite combinations through dentine in vitro (1996)
- Bioavailability of components of resin-based materials which are applied to teeth (1996)
- The association of carious dentin microflora with tissue changes in human pulpitis (1993)
- Diffusion of hydrogen ion and hydroxyl ion from various sources through dentine (1988)
- Release and diffusion through human tooth roots in vitro of corticosteroid and tetracycline trace molecules from Ledermix paste (1988)
- A new technique for screening chemical toxicity to the pulp from dental restorative materials and procedures (1985)
- An analysis of the release and the diffusion through dentin of eugenol from zinc oxide-eugenol mixtures (1984)
- Spontaneous recurrent seizures in an intra-amygdala kainate microinjection model of temporal lobe epilepsy are differentially sensitive to antiseizure drugs (2022)
- Screening of prototype antiseizure and anti-inflammatory compounds in the Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus model of epilepsy (2022)
- Development of an antiseizure drug screening platform for Dravet syndrome at the NINDS contract site for the Epilepsy Therapy Screening Program (2021)
- Cannabidiolic acid exhibits entourage-like improvements of anticonvulsant activity in an acute rat model of seizures (2021)
- A combination treatment of low-dose dexamethasone and aspirin-triggered resolvin D1 reduces Sjögren syndrome-like features in a mouse model (2023)
- Neurologic involvement in seronegative primary Sjögren's syndrome with positive minor salivary gland biopsy: a single-center experience (2023)
- Specialized pro-resolving receptors are expressed in salivary glands with Sjögren's syndrome (2022)
- Laminin-1 Peptides Conjugated to Fibrin Hydrogels Promote Salivary Gland Regeneration in Irradiated Mouse Submandibular Glands (2021)
- The use of BokaFlo™ instrument to measure salivary flow (2021)
- Comprehensive oral care improves treatment outcomes in male and female patients with high-severity and chronic substance use disorders (2019)
- Hepatitis Delta Virus Reporting Requirements in the United States and Territories: A Systematic Review (2024)
- Growing Awareness: Limited Testing and Screening Bias for Hepatitis Delta Virus in Utah 2000-2021 (2024)
- Analysis of Hepatitis D Virus in Minor Salivary Gland of Sjögren's Disease (2023)
- Pathogenesis and outcome of VA1 astrovirus infection in the human brain are defined by disruption of neural functions and imbalanced host immune responses (2023)
- A changing landscape: Tracking and analysis of the international HDV epidemiology 1999-2020 (2023)
- The use of BokaFlo™ instrument to measure salivary flow (2021)
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- Mineralized nanofiber segments coupled with calcium-binding BMP-2 peptides for alveolar bone regeneration (2018)
- Glucocorticoid-induced delayed fracture healing and impaired bone biomechanical properties in mice (2018)
- Improved performance of Bis-GMA/TEGDMA dental composites by net-like structures formed from SiO2 nanofiber fillers (2015)
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- A ropivacaine-eluting poly(lactide-co-caprolactone) wound dressing provided enhanced analgesia in partial-thickness porcine injuries (2024)
- Sintered fluorapatite scaffolds as an autograft-like engineered bone graft (2024)
- A Novel Vascular Anastomotic Coupling Device for End-to-End Anastomosis of Arteries and Veins (2024)
- A Non-Contrast Multi-Parametric MRI Biomarker for Assessment of MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thermal Therapies (2024)
- Local delivery of FK506 to a nerve allograft is comparable to systemic delivery at suppressing allogeneic graft rejection (2023)
- Evaluating the influence of particle morphology and density on the viscosity and injectability of a novel long-acting local anesthetic suspension (2022)
- Fluorapatite and fluorohydroxyapatite apatite surfaces drive adipose-derived stem cells to an osteogenic lineage (2022)
- Thermally tunable hydrogel crosslinking mediated by temperature sensitive liposome (2021)
- Histology to 3D in vivo MR registration for volumetric evaluation of MRgFUS treatment assessment biomarkers (2021)
- Compression of the vascular wall to create a friction fit in a vascular anastomotic coupler (2021)
- Reciprocal regulation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma growth and molecular subtype by HNF4α and SIX1/4 (2020)
- Modeling diffusion-based drug release inside a nerve conduit in vitro and in vivo validation study (2020)
- A Dentist's Perspective on the Need for Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Reduce Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (2022)
- Hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and case-fatality outcomes in US veterans with COVID-19 disease between years 2020-2021 (2022)
- A preliminary, observational study using whole-blood RNA sequencing reveals differential expression of inflammatory and bone markers post-implantation of percutaneous osseointegrated prostheses (2022)
- Fluorapatite and fluorohydroxyapatite apatite surfaces drive adipose-derived stem cells to an osteogenic lineage (2021)
- Characterization of porous fluorohydroxyapatite bone-scaffolds fabricated using freeze casting (2021)
- Coronavirus disease 2019 in veterans receiving care at veterans health administration facilities (2020)
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