Congratulations to last year’s cohort of 14 residents who recently graduated with their MSD.
Endodontics Dr. Tareq Al-Ali: A Comparison of Circular versus Rectangular Collimation in Endodontics Dr. Dan-Linh Ha: Accuracy of Limited Field Cone Beam Computed Tomography in the Detection of Buccal Cortical Plate Perforations Due to Periapical Lesions Dr. Manpreet Sarao: Comparative Analysis of WaveOne and LightSpeed LSX for Residual Dentin Thickness of the Bifurcated Maxillary First Premolar […]
New research awards for the school of dentistry
Congratulations Dr Todd Kitten has received an award from the American Heart Association. He will use the $154,000 to identify small molecule inhibitors of an endocarditis virulence factor Dr Janina Lewis was one of the recipients of the Virginia Commonwealth University Presidential Research Quest Fund. Dr. Lewis will use the funding to look at the […]
The promise of tissue engineering in oral and craniofacial rehabilitation
In dentistry there is a real clinical need for more effective ways to treat congenital growth defects, facial reconstruction following disease or trauma, and the costs and complications associated with orofacial infection and inflammation. Drs Omar Abubaker (SoD), Lynne Elmore (SoM) Gary Bowlin (SoE) and Parthasarthy Madurantakam (SoD) started proceedings with their perspectives on clinical […]
Faculty Research – Who’s Who in SOD Ms Kim T. Isringhausen
Ms Isringhausen’s research career started when pursuing her MPH degree where her dissertation looked at the factors that influence preventative dental behaviors. For a while her administrative responsibilities and to a certain extent her fear of the unknown kept her from developing her own independent research programs. However, in 2012 Ms Isringhausen submitted her first […]
The strength of International research collaborations
Bond strength of resin cements to ceramics Micro shear bond strength of a dual cure resin and self-adhesive phosphoro-resin cement were compared on four different porcelains. The porcelain firing and bonding was performed by the collaborators from Brazil while testing and SEM fracture evaluations were performed at VCU. The initial evaluation was of short term […]
IADR Announces Deadlines for 2014 Awards and Fellowships
The IADR is now accepting applications for the 2014 IADRAADR awards and fellowships. A full list of awards and dates can be found at http://www.iadr.org/files/public/14Awards.pdf
Review of Seattle Meeting Research Highlights
The Dental School had two oral and nineteen poster presentations at this year AIDR meeting in Seattle in March. The titles of the presentations can be viewed here Oral Presentations 95 Dynein Mutations Suggest Novel Disease Pathogenesis Mechanism for Aggressive Periodontiti S.R. DIEHL1, F. KUO1, P. DU2, C. HUANG1, and H.A. SCHENKEIN3, 1Center for Pharmacogenomics […]
Key note by Dr Kirk Norbo
Key note by Dr Kirk Norbo Dr Kirk Norbo gave a key note talk on the future of dentistry. In his talk he highlighted some areas of challenge of particular relevance to the new dentist. There is a rapid pace of change in new technologies for dentistry. This has huge cost implications especially for smaller […]
Grants and Awards
Grants Awarded to School of Dentistry Isringhausen, Kim T Oral Health Promotion and Community Outreach Three Session Educational Interventions for Improving and Maintaining Oral Health in Older Women John Snow, Inc. $2,500 An Innovative Program to Increase Access to Oral Health Care Workforce VHWDA $70,541 Sahingur, Sinem Es Periodontics Inflammatory responses initiated by periodontal bacterial […]
Clinic And Research Day Program
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