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Vol. XVII, No. 1 Summer 2010 Issue cudental.creighton.edu/402.280.5060 Dean’s Message Dr. Cavel Earns Alumni Merit Award W. Thomas Cavel, DDS’70, received the Making a Difference School’s 2010 Alumni Merit Award on April We say good-bye 23. The award was presented during the to an outstanding School’s 2010 Reunion Weekend, held April faculty member 22-24 in conjunction with the Spring Dental and administrator Assembly. with the retirement After earning his DDS from Creighton of Frank Ayers, in 1970, Dr. Cavel served in the U.S. Army DDS’69, at the end of and was assigned to the Washington, D.C., June, after 38 years of area. He returned to Omaha and began service. As Associate his teaching career at Creighton in 1972, Dean for Student advancing to full professor in 1986. Affairs and Director Dr. Cavel has served as Chair of the of Admissions, Dr. Department of Operative Dentistry (1986- Ayers has had a great impact on the lives of 1994), Assistant Director of Clinics (1985- past and current students in the School. 1995) and Chair of the Department of General In this newsletter, we share the news Dentistry (1999-2007). He is the inaugural of one alumnus, Adam Diasti, DDS’90, holder of the Dr. Raymond W. Shaddy and his wife, Chrischelle, establishing Endowed Chair in Operative Dentistry, a an endowed scholarship in Dr. Ayers’ position he has held since 1994. In 1999, the name, and the Society of American Indian American Association of Dental Examiners Dentists honoring Dr. Ayers during its presented Dr. Cavel with the prestigious Dean Wayne Barkmeier presents Dr. W. Thomas national meeting at Creighton. These are “Citizen of the Year” certificate. Dr. Cavel Cavel, DDS’70, with the Alumni Merit Award. both very fitting ways to remember the was also inducted into the Nebraska Dental legacy of Dr. Ayers, who has always been Hall of Fame in 2007. skills as a dentist and as an educator, Dr. a champion for all students and made Dr. Cavel’s greatest contribution to student Cavel serves as a model of Jesuit, Catholic special efforts to bring students from education is his dedication to excellence, compassion and service, giving generously to disadvantaged backgrounds into the dental reflected in Creighton dental students family, church and community, but especially profession. routinely scoring in the highest quintile in to the less fortunate. His record of service Dr. Ayers helped organize the Jesuit both the Dental Anatomy and Operative extends beyond Creighton and beyond Dental School Recruitment Collaborative Dentistry sections of the National Dental Omaha, and includes multiple trips to the for Native American Students. With Boards. Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) funding from the Robert Wood Johnson In addition, Dr. Cavel has been actively in the Dominican Republic. Foundation, this collaborative is creating engaged in numerous clinical research a pipeline into the dental profession for studies, which have led to the School being Native American students. Participating nationally and internationally recognized in Calendar schools include Creighton, Gonzaga and the area of dental materials research. June 22 – Farewell reception for Dr. Marquette Universities. Creighton is a Beyond his stellar academic and Frank Ayers leader among U.S. dental schools for professional record and his indisputable June 30 – Dr. Ben Kutler Memorial enrolling Native American students. With Dr. Ayers’ departure, Dr. Neil Golf Classic at Iron Horse Golf Club Norton, an award-winning educator on our Aug 20-21 – CE & Golf Outing, faculty since 1996, will assume the position Reunion Moving Pueblo, Colo. of Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Sept. 8 – Mass of the Holy Spirit at Director of Admissions. He is currently an to Fall for 2011 Associate Professor of Oral Biology. St. John’s Church The School of Dentistry Alumni We welcome Dr. Norton’s expertise Oct. 7 – Alumni Advisory Board Advisory Board unanimously endorsed and leadership to the position, and wish Meeting, School of Dentistry, room moving the dates for the Dental Dr. Ayers all the best in his retirement. It 131 is through the efforts of such committed Assembly/Reunion Weekend from the faculty that our students continue to spring to the fall, in an effort to better Oct. 9 – American Dental Association receive such an outstanding education. accommodate scheduling the event. The Meeting, Orlando, Fla., Creighton 2011 reunion is set for Sept. 29 through University reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Oct. 1. Mark your calendars, and look for Wayne W. Barkmeier, DDS, MS The Peabody Orlando Hotel, Rock more information to follow. Dean, School of Dentistry Springs I and II rooms. Creighton a Leader in Dental Radiology Advancements in dental radiology, and in the computer software and systems that automate the reading of these scans, is offering dental professionals new methods for diagnosing tooth decay, periodontal disease and other dental health issues. And Creighton University is leading the way in educating students (and dental professionals) in the use of these new technologies. This past year, the School completed construction of a radiology reading room for dental students, with 19 dual monitor workstations. Patient electronic charts with digital radiographs may be accessed so that students can perform structured radiographic reporting. The room has initially been open to students six half days per week, with radiology faculty available on a one-on-one basis for consultation and review of reports. In addition, interactive programs Dr. Benn has developed software to automate the reading of CT scans. are available for students to learn CT radiographic anatomy of the head. The initial and automatically label some of the major producing an urgent need for continuing version has about 100 anatomical objects, anatomical structures,” Dr. Benn said. education (CE) courses on their use. including the paranasal sinuses and nasal Dr. Benn and a colleague are now in the Beginning in October, Creighton will use complex. A version for medical students process of collecting 300 existing patient data the new radiology reading room for the may be developed in collaboration with the sets and labeling them to create a training first in a series of courses.(Dr. Benn will Creighton School of Medicine. library to test the accuracy of the software. present “Cone Beam CT” on Oct. 1 and “Digital Dr. Douglas Benn, Professor of General “This software will reduce the amount of Radiography for Dental Assistants” Oct. 22-23; Dentistry, has been an innovator in the time it takes to train radiologists to read call Marletta McKercher with questions or to development of software programs that images,” he said. register, 402.280.5054.) automate the reading of dental patients’ CT With more dental offices purchasing these These courses will support Creighton’s scans. sophisticated scanning machines, needed new CBCT service, which is scheduled “By the time I came to Creighton training is not limited to dental students. to begin this summer and will involve (in January 2009), I had a working Benn estimates that 3,000 Cone Beam two CBCT machines and a radiographic demonstration of how this software could CT (CBCT) scanners have been installed technician. The new service will also provide take 512 slices through a patient’s head in dental offices in the United States – sialograms (imaging of the salivary glands). Sharpe Earns Scholarship Congratulations to student Luke Sharpe, who was awarded a Predoctoral Dental Student Scholarship from the American Dental Association Foundation. Creighton Faculty, Students Volunteer at KidzExplore Creighton faculty and students helped staff the Omaha District Dental Society booth at Omaha’s KidzExplore 2010 – a family festival held in April at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Visitors had a chance to meet the Tooth Fairy and pick up dental health care products, pamphlets and a nutritious snack. Staffers handed out Dr. Douglas Benn and Dr. Wayne Barkmeier, Dean of the School of Dentistry, dedicate a digital radiology about 1,800 toothbrushes over the two-day station in the name of alumnus James Theisen, DDS’59. Diane Theisen Kohout, BA’91, MBA’93, and Jim event. Faculty participants were Drs. Nick Theisen, BSBA’85, MBA’88, JD’88, honored the memory of their late father with a gift to the School from Levering, David Mohs, Larry Parrish, Mark his estate. “Creighton was important to him for so many reasons, but mostly because it literally brought Taylor and Gary Westerman. Creighton together the most important things in his life: faith, family and friends,” said Diane Kohout. “Dentistry dental students and dental assistant students was important to him because of the family legacy he fulfilled, following the paths of his father and older from Metropolitan Community College also brother as dentists. He truly considered his patients his friends.” staffed the booth. 2 Continuing Education If you are interested in getting more information or you have questions about any of the following courses, please contact Marletta McKercher at 402.280.5054. • Aug. 13-14; Radiology for Dental Assistants; John Shaner, DMD, MS • Sept. 9-10; Coronal Polishing for Dental Assistants; Dennis Higginbotham, DDS • Sept. 10; Pain Management; Frank Dowd DDS, PhD • Oct. 1; Cone Beam CT; Douglas Benn, BDS, PhD, DDR, DDS • Oct. 8; Urban Memorial Lecture: The Treatment of Maxillofacial Battle Injuries: The Past, Present & the Future; Robert Hale, DDS • Oct. 22; Pedodontics Update; Anne Aiello, DMD, Nicholas Levering, DDS, MS, Mark Taylor, DDS • Oct. 22-23; Digital Radiography for Dental Assistants; Douglas Benn, BDS, PhD, DDR, DDS • Nov. 5; Managing the Dental Patient in Pain and Pharmacologic Management of Dr. Ayers, left, at the School of Dentistry Alumni Reception and Dinner with former student Adam Orofacial Infections; Harold Crossley, DDS, Diasti, DDS’90, and his wife, Chrischelle. The Diastis established a scholarship in Dr. Ayers’ name. PhD • Nov. 6; Magic Saturday Morning; Mr. Jeff Teate, Harold Crossley, DDS, PhD • Nov. 12-13; Radiology for Dental Dr. Ayers Honored Assistants; John Shaner, DMD, MS • Nov. 19 (with optional clinic Nov. 20); by Alumnus, Native Head and Neck Cancer Detection and Prevention; John Shaner, DMD, MS • Dec. 3; Infection Control and OSHA American Dentists Annual Review; James Howard, DDS, MS • Feb 13-20; Dental Topics in the Tropics – CE in Costa Rica rank Ayers, DDS’69, • Sept 29-Oct. 1, 2011; Fall Dental Associate Dean for Assembly/Reunion Weekend Student Affairs, Director Dr. McNally Named Fof Admissions and Associate to Board of Health Professor of Pediatric Dentistry, is Dr. Stuart McNally, Assistant Professor of retiring June 30, after 38 years of General Dentistry, was named Secretary of Dr. Ayers receives a traditional Native American the Douglas County Board of Health for the service to Creighton University. blanket as a symbol of honor from the SAID. He second year. is pictured with George Blue Spruce Jr., DDS’56, the first Native American dentist and a Creighton Adam Diasti, DDS’90, President of Coast graduate. Periodontics Award Grant Dental Services, Inc., the leading provider The Department of Periodontics was of dental services in the Southeast, and th his wife, Chrischelle, recently honored Dr. was honored at the 20 annual national awarded the 2010 American Academy of Frank Ayers, by establishing an endowed meeting of the Society of American Indian Periodontology Foundation Charles W. Finley scholarship in Ayers’ name. Dentists (SAID) on Creighton’s campus May Visiting Scholar Education Grant. Funds The first recipient of the Dr. Frank J. Ayers, 21-22. from the grant helped support the “Clinical Jr. Endowed Scholarship was senior dental Ayers has been a passionate advocate Application of Tissue Engineering Materials” student Katarzyna Piekarska. in recruiting Native American dentists symposium held at Creighton in April. (Read more about the scholarship, the donor, and served as the principal investigator the recipient, and Dr. Ayers in the June issue of for a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Water Fluoridation the Creighton University Magazine, online at Foundation’s Dental Pipeline Program for Creighton alumnus Michael Moriarty, www.creightonmagazine.org.) that purpose. BA’86, DDS’90, and his wife, Maya, Creighton has the highest number of Society of American Indian Dentists community health advocates, were Native Americans in the nation in its dental instrumental in getting Seward, Alaska, to Dr. Frank Ayers, Associate Dean for program – 11 first- and second-year students initiate water fluoridation. They were featured Student Affairs and Director of Admissions, are enrolled in academic year 2010-2011. in the Nov. 2, 2009, issue of the ADA News. 3 Alumni Return for Reunion Weekend chool of Dentistry alumni returned home to Creighton in April for Destination Creighton: Reunion Weekend 2010 activities, in conjunction with the Spring Dental SAssembly. Included in the weekend activities were reunion celebrations for the classes Members of the Golden Jays Class of 1960 gather for a photo at the alumni dinner. of 1945, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990 and 2000. The festivities began April 22 with continuing education classes; a lecture and book signing by George Blue Spruce Jr., DDS’56, author of the new book Searching for My Destiny; a welcome reception; a special recognition to the late Eugene Stormberg, DDS’53, Professor Emeritus of Operative Dentistry, with a plaque on the Faculty Wall of Honor; followed by the Creighton Society and Dean’s Club Recognition Dinner. The following day, the School of Dentistry Alumni Reception and Dinner welcomed more than 378 guests to the Harper Center. Dean Wayne Barkmeier welcomed alumni and friends back to Omaha. W. Thomas Cavel, DDS’70, received the 2010 Alumni Merit Award at the dinner, and members of the class of 1960 were honored as this year’s Golden Jays. Other events included a golf outing for alumni, faculty and students and the second annual Cavities Dan Kelly, DDS’72, Noanie Kelly, Bill O’Hara, DDS’70, and the Rev. Thomas Shanahan, S.J., catch and Clay Sport shooting outing, which drew up at the alumni reception. over 50 participants.

Class Gifts Exceed Goal his year’s Reunion Giving Classes of 1960, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000 donated a total of $56,145 in unrestricted gifts in Tsupport of the School of Dentistry – surpassing their goal by $6,000. Collectively, these gifts of unrestricted, operating support allow the School to address its most pressing needs. This support will help provide scholarships for students who otherwise could not attend Creighton; fund innovative academic initiatives; update research laboratories; attract and Alumnus George Blue Spruce Jr., DDS’56, talks about his new book during a book retain respected faculty; and help Creighton create an signing and discussion at the spring dental reunion. environment for faith in action.

4 School Offers New Master’s Degree The Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dentistry has created a program of study culminating in a Master of Science degree. The proposed program is flexible and will foster an interdisciplinary approach using School of Dentistry research, courses and facilities to cater to the needs of individual students. A thesis will be required. The program will be geared toward providing a sound didactic basis for students interested in pursuing dentistry as a profession. It will also provide research opportunities and teaching experience in an effort to model graduate students for an academic career as clinician educators and academic dentists. The program will provide a choice of two tracks of study. The first will be in dental materials and include didactic and research emphasis in modern A Brighter Smile materials science. The second will be in oral biology and emphasize didactic Gary Westerman, DDS’69, explains the proper way to brush teeth as Billy Bluejay looks on. The School and research in anatomical sciences and provided free dental exams, X-rays, cleaning, fluoride and dental education to more than 100 metro- histology. area children in February as part of the annual “Give Kids a Smile Day,” held in conjunction with Both tracks will equip students to National Children’s Dental Health Month. This is the ninth year for the Creighton event. More than analyze research and clinical literature 120 dentists, dental students and other volunteers provided service. and will provide an opportunity in the second year to teach in first-year predoctoral dental laboratory courses. Some of the specific objectives for Faculty Earn Tenure, Promotions the M.S. in Oral Biology program are: The following full-time faculty members Professor of Prosthodontics; Dr. Michael 1) To provide an educational program will receive tenure and/or the following Kreekos to Adjunct Associate Professor of study for students interested in promotions, effective July 1: Dr. Kenneth of Prosthodontics; Dr. Alfred Longo, Jr. to Dental Science. 2) Increase the pool Hermsen, tenure; Dr. Nicole Kimmes, tenure Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatric of candidates to address the faculty and promotion to Associate Professor; Dr. Dentistry; Dr. Cynthia Russell to Adjunct shortage in dental education. 3) Terry Lanphier, promotion to Associate Associate Professor of General Dentistry; Increase national and international Professor; Dr. Charles Wilcox, promotion to Dr. Greg Samuelson to Adjunct Associate recognition for the School of Dentistry. Professor; Dr. David Williams, tenure and Professor of Pediatric Dentistry; Dr. John 4) Increase the level of scholarly activity promotion to Associate Professor. At the Sullivan to Adjunct Professor of General in the School of Dentistry. President’s Convocation in February, Dr. John Dentistry; Dr. Sharlene Hsiao Lin Yuan to Mattson and Dr. Paul Tamisiea were both Adjunct Associate Professor of Endodontics. promoted to Professor Emeritus. Get Your Foursome Ready Promotions among part-time faculty Delta Dental Supports Clinic Service The Creighton School of Dentistry and members, effective this past January and Creighton’s Epsilon Chapter of Omicron February, include: Dr. William Patrick A $10,000 gift from Delta Dental of Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor Kelsey to Assistant Clinical Professor Nebraska will help support the School’s society, will host the annual Dr. Ben Kutler in the Department of Periodontics; Dr. OneWorld evening clinics. Twice monthly, Memorial Golf Classic on Wednesday, June Michael Carlisle to Adjunct Associate the School provides dental care to adult 30, at Iron Horse Golf Club in Ashland, Neb. Professor of General Dentistry; Dr. patients identified through the OneWorld Dr. Kutler was a 1945 graduate of the Bradley Carson to Adjunct Associate Community Health Center as those being in Creighton School of Dentistry and received Professor of Prosthodontics; Dr. Jeffry most need of dental care. Delta Dental also the School’s Alumni Merit Award in 1997 for Cherek to Adjunct Assistant Professor of has established an endowed scholarship lifelong devotion to his profession and to his General Dentistry; Dr. Joseph Franco, Jr. fund, which awards a $1,000 scholarship to a community. to Adjunct Associate Professor of General junior student based on academic merit and For a registration form or for more Dentistry; Dr. Stephen Gillespie to Adjunct financial need, and provides an annual $5,000 information, call Dr. Tom Meng at Associate Professor of Prosthodontics; Dr. gift for the Dr. Ben Kutler Memorial Golf 402.280.5083. Jerome Gradoville to Adjunct Associate Classic. 5 Twenty-Eight-Year-Old Woman With Recent Publications Onset of Painful Oral Erosions. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2010 Apr 22. • Healthy eating index is a predictor of early • Edwards PC, Kanjirath PP, Norton NS, childhood caries. Nunn ME, Braunstein NS, Publications McVaney T, Scanlon C, Saini T. Developmental Krall-Kaye EA, Dietrich T, Garcia RI, Henshaw oronasal fistula of the incisive papilla. Gen Dent. MM, Journal of Dental Research, 2009/88/361-6. 2010 Jan-Feb; 58(1):62-7. • Risk calculation and periodontal outcomes, Garcia RI, Nunn ME, Dietrich T, Periodontology bstracts A Books 2000, 2009/50/65-77. • Prevalence of early childhood caries among • Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dentistry, very young urban Boston children compared John A. Yagiella, Frank J. Dowd, Barton S. with U.S. children, Nunn ME, Dietrich T, Singh Aug; 18(6): 473-8. Epub 2009 May 26. Johnson, Angelo J. Mariotti, and Enid A. Neidle, HK, Henshaw MM, Kressin NR, Journal of Public • George& J, Headen KV, Ogunleye AO, Perry editors, 2010, sixth ed. Health Dentistry, 2009/69/156-62. GA, Wilwerding TM, Parrish LC, McVaney TP, • Norton, NS (2009) wrote “Decompression • Essential dental treatment (EDT) in Mattson JS, Cerutis Dr. Lysophosphatidic acid Sickness and Pneumothorax” chapter in Medical pregnant women during the second trimester is signals through specific lysophosphatidic acid Evidence, eds. Quinn, TH and Morris, JS not associated with an increased risk of serious receptor subtypes to control key regenerative adverse pregnancy outcomes or medical events, responses of human gingival and periodontal th Nunn ME, Journal of Evidence Based Dental ligament fibroblasts. J Periodontal. 2009 Aug; Abstracts presented at the 39 Practice, 2009/9/91-2. 80(8): 1338-47. annual meeting of the American • Pediatric clinicians can help reduce rates of • Barkmeier WW, Erickson RL, Kimmes N, Association of Dental Research, early childhood caries: effects of a practice-based Latta MA, Wilwerding TM. Effect of enamel intervention, Kressin NR, Nunn ME, Singh H, etching time on roughness and bond strength. Washington, D.C., March 3-6, 2010 Orner MB, Pbert L, Hayes C, Culler C, Glicken Oper Dent. 2009 Mar-Apr; 34(2):217-22. SR, Palfrey S, Geltman PL, Cadoret C, Henshaw • Wilcox CW, Sheets JL, Nilsson DE. • Westerman G, Flaitz C, Powell G, Hicks J. MM, Medical Care, 2009/47/1121-8. Predoctoral Implant Education: The Creighton Remineralizing Fluoridated Paste and Argon • Oral microbiota of children in a school- Experience at 20 years. J Prosthodont. 2009 Dec 21. Laser: Enamel Surface Topography Effects; based dental clinic, Soncini JA, Kanasi E, Lu SC, • Chehal H, Cohen DM, Bhattacharyya IB. Abstract 318. Nunn ME, Henshaw MM, Tanner AC, Anaerobe, Case Challenge: Pernicious Anemia. Journal of • Tsubota K, Chiba-Shibuya Y, Chiba Y, Sando 2009/epub ahead of print. Contemporary Dentistry 1:10:96-100, 2009. S, Miyassaki M, Latta M. Influence of Storage • The association of occlusal contacts with • Chehal H, Barr HL, Wesson SK, Conditions of Adhesive Vials on Bond Strength; the presence of increased periodontal probing Bhattacharyya IB. Pyoderma Gangrenosum Abstract 431. depth, Harrel SK, Nunn ME, Journal of Clinical Masquerading as Necrotizing Faciitis. American • Kador P, O’Meara J, Blessing K, Rheinhardt Periodontology, 2009/36/1035-42. Journal Otolaryngology, 30(4):27, 3-6, 2009 J. Aldose Reductase Inhibitors Reduce • Kanasi E, Johansson I, Lu SC, Kressin NR, • Chehal H, Cohen DM, Bhattacharyya IB, Experimental Periodontitis; Abstract 174. Nunn ME, Kent R Jr, Tanner AC. Microbial risk Dental Erosion Associated with Excessive Wine • Kaye-Krall E, Nunn M, Dietrich T, Garcia markers for childhood caries in pediatricians’ Consumption. General Dentistry, 57(5):591-623, R. Dietary Carbohydrates and Root Caries offices.Journal of Dental Research 2010/89/378- 2009. Incidence over 15 Years; Abstract 105. 83. • Kelsey III WP, Kimmes NS, Williams DE, • Lui B, Nunn M, Offner G, Jones J. Impact • Harrel SK, Wilson TG Jr, Nunn ME. Ogunleye AO, Ault JT and Barkmeier WW. of Partial Denture Wearing on Quality of Life; Prospective assessment of the use of enamel Gender-based differences in satisfaction with Abstract 860. matrix derivative with minimally invasive academic preparation and practice experiences. • Naughton W, Latta M. Shear Bond Strength surgery: 6-year results. Journal of Periodontology J Dent Ed. 73(4):464-470, 2009. of Self-adhesive Resin Cements to Dentin; 2010/81/435-41. • Erickson RL, Barkmeier WW and Kimmes Abstract 201. • Miyamoto T, Kumagai T, Lang MS, Nunn NS. Fatigue of enamel bonds with self-etch • Latta M, Boss T. Dentin Bond Strength of ME. Compliance as a Prognostic Indicator adhesives. Dent Mater. 25(6):716-720, 2009. Fiber Posts Using Different Cements; Abstract Part II, Impact of Patient’s Compliance to • Erickson RL, Barkmeier WW and Kimmes 1223. the Individual Tooth Survival. Journal of NS. Bond strength of self-etch adhesives to pre- • Redlinger T, Falamarzi B, Salama F. Bond Periodontology 2010/epub ahead of print. etched enamel. Dent Mater. 25(10):1187-1194, Strength of Restorative Materials Following • Welie JVM, Levering NJ. Dental Ethics October 2009. Surface Conditioning for Repair; Abstract 783. Education at the Creighton University School of • Soukup GA, Fritzsch B, Pierce ML, Weston • Sheets J, Wilcox C, Barkmeier W. Effect of Dentistry. Bulletin of the International Dental Ethics MD, Jahan I, McManus M, and Harfe BD. Pre-etching and Thermocycling on Self-etching and Law Society 9(2) 34-37. Residual microRNA expression dictates the Adhesive Enamel Bonding; Abstract 231. • Systemic azithromycin in the treatment of extent of inner ear development in conditional • Latta M, Barkmeier W, Wilwerding T. chronic periodontitis that persisted after non- Dicer knockout mice. Dev Biol 2009; 328(2):pp In-vitro Wear of Glass Ionomer Restorative surgical therapy. A report of two cases. Parrish 328-341. Materials; Abstract 95. L, Mattson J, Miyamoto T, Cerutis DR. Perio - • Parrish LC, Miyamoto T, Fong N, Mattson • Latta M, Barkmeier W, McNally S. Bond Periodontal Practices Today. 2008,5,259-269 JS, Cerutis DR. Non-bioabsorbable vs. Strengths to Enamel Using Hydrophilic and • Lin A, Wang CJ, Kelly J, Gubbi P, Nishimura bioabsorbable membrane: assessment of their Hydrophobic Adhesives; Abstract 16. I. The role of titanium implant surface clinical efficacy in guided tissue regeneration • Latta M, Barkmeier W. Fatigue Limits of modification with hydroxyapatite nanoparticles technique. A systematic review. J Oral Sci. 2009; Enamel Bonds Using Single and Multi-step in progressive early bone-implant fixation in 51(3):383-400. Adhesives; Abstract 17. vivo. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants. 2009 Sept-Oct; • Kimmes NS, Barkmeier WW, Erickson RL, • Kimmes N, Barkmeier W, Latta M. Localized 24(5): 808-16. Latta MA. Adhesive bond strengths to enamel Wear of Resin Composites Using Three • Kelly J, Lin A, Wang CJ, Park S, Nishimura I. and dentin using recommended and extended Antagonists; Abstract 459. Vitamin D and bone physiology: demonstration treatment times. Oper Dent. 2010 Jan-Feb; • Barkmeier W, Latta M, Erickson R. of vitamin D deficiency in an implant 35(1):112-9. Generalized Wear Simulation of Resin osseointegration rat model. J Prosthodont 2009 • Edwards PC, Hess S, Saini T, Norton N. Composites; Abstract 33. 6 • Chehal H. Diagnostic Modalities for • Rocha-Sanchez SMS. Digging deep into the Abstracts presented at the Detection of Oral Cancer Oral Soft Tissue. cell’s pocket: insights from the pocket proteins annual meeting of the Federation Pathology Symposium. Feb. 2009 family in inner ear hair cell regeneration. 12th • Chehal H, Cohen DM, Bhattacharyya, IB. Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Physiological of American Societies for Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity. Society. Omaha, NE. September 2009. Experimental Biology (FASEB) Annual Meeting of the American Association of • Begley K, Goulet C, Doll J, Gould Anaheim, Calif., April 24-28, 2010 Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. May 2009 KA, Martens-Stricklett K. Development • McNally SJ, Kimmes NS, Barkmeier of interdisciplinary team skills in health • Barritt L, Jergenson M, Norton N, Ayers WW, Hemostatic Agent Rinse Time Effect on professional students: a pilot study. Teaching F. Using histology as a predictor of academic Composite Shear Bond Strength. IADR, July Prevention 2009 – Transformations. February success in a post-baccalaureate program FASEB J. 2008, Toronto, Canada. 2009; Los Angeles, CA. 2010 24:828.8. • Smith K, Lanphier T, Jergenson M, Edwards P, Saini T, Norton N. Using QuickTime videos of cone beam computed tomography of the mandible in the instruction of first-year dental students FASEB J. 2010 24:825.2 • Cerutis R, Headen K, Perry G, Parrish L, McVaney T, Jordan C. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptor subtypes on human gingival and periodontal ligament fibroblasts are regulated by PDGF FASEB J. 2010 24:769.11 • Norton N, Jergenson M, Barritt L, Ayers F. Using gross anatomy as a predictor of academic success in a post baccalaureate program FASEB J. 2010 24:828.7

Other Faculty Abstracts

• Weston MD, Korte M, Pierce ML, Beisel LH, McGee J, Walsh E, Soukup GA. Hair cell MicroRNA misexpression in supporting cells results in hair cell loss and deafness. The Association of Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) 32nd Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2009. Graduation a Family Affair • Beisel K, Weston MD, Rocha-Sanchez S, Pecka J. Analysis and comparison of the adult The Creighton School of Dentistry welcomed 87 graduates into its alumni ranks during commencement mouse inner and outer hair cell transcriptomes. ceremonies in May. Among the graduates was Dr. Daniel Becker, DDS’10, center, a fourth-generation The Association of Research in Otolaryngology Creighton dentist. His great-grandfather, Paul Becker, graduated from Creighton’s School of Dentistry (ARO) 32nd Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD, in 1914, his grandfather, Clement Becker, right, in 1954, and his father, Stephen Becker, left, in 1978. 2009. • Weston MD, Pierce ML, Fritzsch B, Walsh E, McGee J, Korte M, Rocha-Sanchez SM, Beisel K, Graduates Honor Faculty and Staff at Banquet Soukup GA. MicroRNA expression and function The Department of Prosthodontics, chaired Award – Dr. Dennis Higginbotham in the developing mouse inner ear and maturing by Dr. Dennis Nilsson, was named the hair cells. 7th Molecular Biology of Hearing and • Dr. Ann M. Garred Award – Dr. Thomas “Department of the Year” during the 2010 Deafness Meeting, Boston, MA, 2009. Cavel Senior Awards Banquet in April. • Rocha-Sanchez SM, Scheetz L, Weston • Dr. Frank J. Ayers Spirit of Compassion The seniors selected Dr. Randy Stout MD, McGee J, Walsh E. Little siblings with a Award – Dr. Scott DiLorenzo (clinical) and Dr. Stephen Hess (lecture) as big attitude: Rbl1 (P107) and Rbl2 (P130) in • Instructors of the Year – junior, Dr. Stout inner ear hair cell regeneration. The Association instructors of the year. (clinical) and Dr. Frank Dowd (lecture); of Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) 33nd Dr. Stout and Dr. Terry Lanphier were sophomore, Dr. Hess; freshman, Dr. Norton. Midwinter Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2010. selected to place the doctorate hoods on each • Pierce ML, Weston MD, Walsh E, McGee J, senior during the Hooding Ceremony, with Korte M, Smith H, Fritzsch B, Rocha-Sanchez Dr. Jared Smith being selected to serve as Alumna Named SM, Soukup GA. Hair cell-specific MicroRNA Master of Ceremonies. OneWorld Director depletion affects hair cell maintenance and Other awards and honorees from the causes progressive hearing loss. The Association banquet are listed below. Regan Young Mackintosh, BSMth’02, of Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) 33nd • Rev. James J. Quinn, S.J. Award – Dr. DDS’06, has been named dental director at Midwinter Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2010. Terry Wilwerding OneWorld Community Health Centers in • Weston MD, Rocha-Sanchez SM, Pierce • Dr. Theodore J. Urban Memorial Award – Omaha. Dr. Mackintosh is one of the faculty ML, Soukup GA. MicroRNA 183 (miR-183) Dr. Neil Norton supervising senior dental students during family misexpression results in the production • Outstanding Part-Time Clinical their OneWorld rotation. She also teaches of extra cochlear inner hair cells in the mouse. Instructor – Dr. Terry Sullivan in the operative preclinical laboratory. She The 3rd Biennial National IDeA Symposium • Sara K. Susman Memorial Award – Tom is joined at OneWorld by fellow Creighton of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) Mendoza graduates Paul Beutler, DDS’08, and Manny Meeting. Washington, D.C., 2010. • Dr. Raymond W. Shaddy Memorial Martinez, DDS’09, who serve as staff dentists. 7 OKU Honors Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Smith, Elects New Permit No. 227 Members Omaha, NE 68178 The Creighton chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU), the national dental honor society, presented junior dental student Kyle Smith with the Dr. William S. Kramer Award of Excellence during its annual banquet in May. Smith was chosen for the Kramer Award based on his demonstrated scholarship, character and his potential promise for the advancement of dentistry and service to humanity. In addition to Smith’s award, several recent graduates and four faculty members were inducted into OKU. Alumni memberships were presented to Drs. David Bailey, Lesley Holloway, Bethany Jensen, Devin Matsumori, Joseph Nierzwicki, Andrea Radabaugh, Jamie Smith, Adam Stanley, Aaron Taff and Austin VanDusen. Dr. Hermsen Honored as Volunteer of Year Faculty memberships were presented to Drs. William Carney, Stuart McNally, David Dr. Kenneth He chairs the Omaha Metropolitan Mohs and Afolabi Ogunleye. An honorary Hermsen, Associate Medical System’s Mass Fatality membership was presented to Dr. Laura Professor of General Committee, charged with planning for Barritt. Dentistry, received the identification and burial of victims of the Medical Reserve disaster. He also helped form a similar Corps (MRC) Linda team for the state of Nebraska and worked Creighton Horning Volunteer on the Eppley Airfield Fire and Rescue of the Year Award team’s disaster response plan. Remembers on April 22 at The award is named for one of the United Way of the first local members of the MRC, a tireless Dean Vining Midlands’ 55th volunteer who responded quickly when annual Volunteer help was needed. Dr. Robert Vining, former Dean of the Recognition Luncheon. Dr. Hermsen also was inducted as the School and Associate Vice President for Dr. Hermsen is a dedicated MRC President-Elect of the Nebraska Dental Health Sciences, died Feb. 21 at the age of 90. volunteer who has used his professional Association at the NDA Annual Session in Vining came to Creighton in 1952 as a experience to help identify victims of the Lincoln. member of the dental faculty and served 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. as Chair of the Department of Operative Dentistry from 1956 to 1958. After 14 years of conducting industry- related dental research, he came back to Dr. Lang Joins Full-Time Faculty Creighton in 1972 as Dean of the School until Dr. Melissa Lang regeneration using simvastatin, a cholesterol- 1983 when he was promoted to Associate joined the full-time lowering drug that stimulates bone growth. Vice President for Health Sciences. He held faculty on March 1. She is a diplomate of the American Board that post until 1985, when he returned to She had been a part- of Periodontology, and taught part-time in full-time teaching in the Department of time faculty member the pre-doctoral and graduate periodontics Removable Prosthodontics. in the Department programs at UNMC College of Dentistry During his 11-year tenure as Dean, he was of Periodontics since before joining Creighton. credited with designing and restructuring July 2009. She is the School’s Senior Clinical Practice Program also course director under a new Department of Comprehensive of sophomore Perio Fellowship Established Dental Care. He was promoted to Dean periodontology, Emeritus in 1986 and was named an teaches in the The new Creighton University School of Honorary Alumnus of the School in 1995. periodontics clinic and conducts research. Dentistry Perio Fellowship Program has “Bob was a tireless and competent clinician Dr. Lang graduated from the University of been established with the goal of providing who was beloved as a teacher and a dean. Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College excellent dental education programs and He was always focused on bringing the best of Dentistry in 2004 with a Doctorate of science-based continuing dental education to education experience to students and making Dental Surgery. In 2007, she received a professionals in the region, as well as dental sure they received the most comprehensive Certificate in Periodontics and a Master of research training. The first resident of the clinical experience possible,” said Dean Science in Oral Biology from UNMC. While program is Dr. Takahiro Kato. Wayne Barkmeier. there, she conducted research in periodontal 8