LMC Dental Research Projects 2013/2014
LMC Dental Residents and Faculty
Participate in Seventeenth Annual
Research Awards Competition—
Lutheran HealthCare Research Fair
AEGD
Abdelrahim/ Hamdan/ Parker
Hamilton Community Health
Network, Flint, MI; Lutheran Medical
Center, Brooklyn, NY
“Why Hamilton Dental Patients Have
“No Show” (A Retrospective Cohort
Analytic Study)”
Leskiv/Shultz
Madison Cooper Family Health
Center, Waco, TX; Lutheran Medical
Center, Brooklyn, NY
“Effectiveness of “Elimination of
Dental Disease Initiative” provided in
Madison Cooper Family Health Center
serving undeserved patients of all
ages in prevention and treatment of
dental caries and periodontal disease
compared to Elm Ave Community
Clinic: Descriptive Study”
Syne/Nguyen/Wilson
Sage Memorial Hospital Dental Clinic,
Ganado, AZ; Lutheran Medical Center,
Brooklyn, NY
“Prevalence and Oral Hygiene
Knowledge of Patients with
Early Childhood Caries (ECC)” in
Ganado, AZ
Dental Anesthesiology
Bonander/Azzaretti
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY “Postoperative Respiratory
Complications in Children with
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A MetaAnalysis”
Eisdorfer/ Azzaretti
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY “Dental Productivity in the OR
and Clinic”
Endodontics
Jakob/ Goldberger/ Feldman
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY “Influence of Limited Cone Beam
Tomography as an Adjunctive Tool
in the Treatment of the Previously
Treated Molar”
Kunin/ Julliard/ Rodriguez
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY; AAL, Atlanta, GA. “Comparing
Face-to-Face, Synchronous, and
Asynchronous Learning Styles:
Postgrad Resident Preferences”
Machicote-González/ Ramirez Brunet
University of Puerto Rico School
of Dental Medicine, San Juan, PR;
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY. “An In Vitro Comparison of the
Sealing Ability of Two Different
Obturating Materials in Teeth with
Simulated Open Apices”
Khan/ Tait/Azzaretti
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
Morales/ Ramirez Brunet
NY “Self-Reported Assessment and
Anesthesia Management of Pediatric University of Puerto Rico School
Patients by Dental Anesthesiologists” of Dental Medicine, San Juan, PR;
Li/Pijpaert
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
Lipon/ Psoter/ Garnes/ Azzaretti
Malama I Ke Ola Dental Clinic,
NY. “A Comparison of the Sealing
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
Maui, Hawaii “Demographic
Ability of MTA vs. Gutta Percha as
NY
Profile of Patients Seen at the
Root End Filling Materials: an
Community Clinic of the Maui Dental “Retrospective Evaluation of Quality
in vitro study”
Assurance of Preoperative Beta
Department”
Seyedein/ Feldman/ Goldberger/
Blocker Therapy for Outpatients
Ouellette/McCracken
Kunin
Prior to Anesthesia and Surgery at
Foundry Dental Center, Bessemer, AL; Lutheran Medical Center”
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY. “Distortion and Breakage of
NY “Conventional Dentures vs. Fixed- Mansour/ Azzaretti/ Siegelman/
Protaper Next, Vortex Blue, and wave
Detachable Dentures on Oral Health Lipon
one Rotary Ni-Ti files, in severely
Related Quality of Life: A Pilot Survey” Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
curved Plastic Blocks”
NY “Case Report: Difficult Ventilation
Parekh/Allukian
as a Result of Multiple Intraoperative Siegel/ Kunin
Holyoke Health Center, Holyoke,
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
Factors”
MA, Chicopee Health Center,
NY. “Reading the Biopsy: An
Pikula/ Azzaretti
Chicopee, MA; Lutheran Medical
Evaluation of Biopsy Reports from
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn,
Center, Brooklyn, NY “Oral Health
Endodontic Surgery when Read by a
NY “Peri-Operative Use of
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior
General Histopathologist vs. an Oral
Dexamethasone: A Review”
of Chemically Dependent Patients
Pathologist”
Enrolled in Suboxone Program in a
Community Health Center”
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