Fernanda Almeida
Obstructive sleep apnea, dental sleep medicine
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Diego Ardenghi
EDI, Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Digital Dentistry, Geriatrics and Prosthodontics
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Ross Bryant
Prosthodontics, Geriatrics, Patient-based assessments, Oral implants, Jawbone densitometry
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Nancy L. Ford
Dr. Nancy Ford is a leader in respiratory-gated and cardiac-gated micro-CT imaging and in contrast-enhanced micro-CT. She was the first researcher worldwide to perform respiratory-gated micro-CT imaging on free-breathing animals. She has performed respiratory-gated imaging of lung injury in rats at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron facility, and radiation therapy treatment to the lung in mice at TRIUMF particle accelerator using the new FLASH irradiation platform. Dr. Ford also pursues research in dental radiology, including characterizing and optimizing the imaging performance for different tasks and measuring the radiation dose delivered to patients during dental conebeam CT and panoramic imaging.
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Mohamed Gebril
Prosthodontics
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Renata Grazziotin
Endodontics - materials and techniques, digital technologies, micro-CT and synchrotron images. Dental Education - confidence/competence, mind-mapping, critical and creative pedagogies, visual methodologies, and arts-based research.
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Denise Laronde
Oral cancer screening; oral epithelial dysplasia; malignant transformation; risk prediction; access to care for oral health services; head and neck cancer survivorship, natural history of oral cancer
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David MacDonald
Dr. MacDonald's main research areas are systematic review in diagnostic radiology and Barrett's oesophagus, radiological pathology of the face and jaws (including incidental findings), scleroderma, educational research in radiology, infection control and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The Barrett's review has been adopted by the NHS in the UK. He was radiology lead in the CIHR Canada-wide study on scleroderma, the largest yet to date. Other largest –to-date case series are of incidental findings on dental panoramic radiographs and on lateral cephalograms, and on lymphomas of the jaws. Furthermore, the largest case series that displayed CBCT superiority over conventional radiography with regards, to diagnostic and therapeutic impacts (high tiers on Fryback and Thornbury’s 6-tier hierarchy for the efficacy of diagnostic imaging) in endodontics.

The 2003/2004 SARS pandemic coincided with Dr. MacDonald’s arrival at UBC and the building of the Oral Health Centre. As a result the infection control of all digital radiographic systems was optimised, including the intraoral phosphor-plate bagging system. Dr. MacDonald, at the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic played a lead role in radiology’s response. He was lead author of the 2021 AAOMR’s guidelines and was invited to update them in 2022’s Int. Dent. J’s ‘New normal radiology’ in order to assist the global dental profession’s return to offering as full a service to their patients.
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Ian Matthew
Dental Education, biomaterials
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Ben Pliska
Facial growth and development, sleep medicine
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Catherine Poh
Community Screening and Management of High Risk Oral Precancers; Visualization Tool-Guided Surgery Approach for High Risk Oral Precancers; Molecular Targets for Intervention of High-Risk Oral Precancers
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Sid Vora
Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental influences on craniofacial growth and development using animal models, human data, and 3D morphometrics
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Chris Wyatt
Prosthodontics, Geriatrics, Dental Disease Prevention, Oral Health Promotion
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Edwin H.K. Yen
Cellular and tissue response to orthodontic force systems
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Lewei Zhang
The long term goal of my research is to characterize in stage-specific fashion the key genetic and phenotypic changes, and the relevant cell alterations in oral premalignant lesions with a higher potential for malignant transformation.
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Bingshuang Zou
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