| Dov M. Almog, DDS |
Implant
Tomography and Imaging Guides; Carotid Artery Calcifications
on Panoramic films; Telemedicine Applications; Dental ASP Applications;
Aesthetic Imaging
Clinical Affairs (Practice Management, Quality Assurance, Infection Control,
Social Work, Service Utilization, Oral Health Policy, etc.) |
| Robert
J. Berkowitz |
Early
childhood caries; Mutans streptococci infections in early childhood;
Healthcare delivery systems (reducing oral health disparities
in young children |
| Jack G. Caton, DDS |
Wound
healing; Diagnostics; Clinical trials |
| Karel
A. deLeeuw,
DDS, MD, MBA |
Salivary
function in renal failure patients; radiation therapy (salivary
dysfunction and osteoradionecrosis |
| Carlo Ercoli, DDS |
Biological
response to implant drilling. Cutting efficiency and engineering
performance of dental cutting tools. Metal surface characterization
with different treatments. Dental materials mechanical and
physical properties affecting their clinical performance |
| Gerald M. Graser, DDS, MS |
Dental |
| Hiroko
Iida, DDS, MPH |
Early
childhood caries; Sociocultural and behavioral science in oral
health promotion; Dental public health; and Sports dentistry
and mouth guards |
| Peter Marshall Jensen, DDS, MS |
Overcoming
disparities in the delivery of dental health in rural areas
through technology. |
| Hyun
Koo, DDS, MS, PhD |
Experimental
therapeutics – novel strategies in prevention of plaque-related
diseases; oral biofilms (dental plaque) – development
of new laboratorial methods; analysis of virulence factors
using biochemical and molecular approaches; animal models of
plaque-related diseases |
| Stephanos
Kyrkanides,
DDS, MS, PhD |
Molecular
craniofacial biology, including growth & development; clinical
cleft palate research, including genetic studies; pain research,
including gene therapy for orofacial pain; gene therapy for
lysosomal storage disorders, including Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff
disease; temporomandibular joint disorders |
| Wayne Lipschitz, DDS |
Models
for the treatment of developmentally disabled patients |
| Hans
Malmström, DDS |
General
Dentistry; Implantology; esthetic dentistry; dental materials;
pain and analgesic drugs |
| Cyril Meyerowitz, BDS, MS |
Cariology,
salivary dysfunction, dental aspects of medically compromised
patients
and postdoctoral general dentistry education. |
| Ralph
H. Saunders, Jr.,
DDS, MS |
Geriatric
dentistry; General dentistry |
| J. Daniel Subtelny, DDS, MS |
Craniofacial
Dysmorphologies: emphasis on cleft lip and palate; growth and
development of the craniofacial complex; the temporomandibular
joint; occlusion and malocclusion diagnosis and treatment;
speech – velopharyngeal physiology and pathology; the
role of neuronal function in craniofacial diseases; craniofacial
anomalies in lysosomal metabolic diseases; gene therapy for
the treatment of congenital craniofacial anomalies; study of
orofacial pain from the temporomandibular joint; effects of
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on remodeling of the
periodontium |
| Andy
(Yen-Tung) Teng,
DDS, MS, PhD |
Infectious
periodontal biofilms and host immunity; Cellular and molecular
mechanisms of periodontal pathogenesis in humans; Identify
and study important microbial virulence factors involved in
human periodontitis; Develop new markers for clinical periodontal
dianosis and treatment outcomes; Develop new reagents for periodontal
therapy (i.e., single-chain human monoclonal antibodies and
vaccines and others); Develop new animal models for studying
periodontal pathogenesis; Infectious perodontal biofilms in
diabetes and its clinical complications; Infectious periodontal
biofilms and its clinical diagnosis (i.e., quantitative PCR
for monitoring clincial disease progression) |
| Todd
Thierer, DDS, MPH |
Decision
analysis; Cost-effectiveness analysis, patient preference for
health states; Dental anxiety and phobia; Health services research |