Enamel crystallization, tongue cleaning, home bleaching and assessing eating disorders. Those were just some of the topics Class of 2022 dental hygiene students at the School of Dentistry chose to study as part of their capstone research projects.
Research
Dr. Fotinos Panagakos, associate dean for research at the School of Dentistry, was awarded a grant from the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health to evaluate the implementation and impact of the adult dental Medicaid benefit in West Virginia.
The Institutional Review Board is a step that every researcher at West Virginia University needs to take when conducting certain studies. Joseph Malcolm can help you up that step.
Researchers with the WVU School of Medicine are studying how a benign virus can make new treatments for eye diseases possible. They’re exploring how to use engineered adeno-associated virus, or AAV, to compensate for missing protein or swap out genetic mutations that cause vision problems and replace them with DNA that works as it should.
A new study by Dr. Dhairya A Lakhani and his colleagues from WVU Radiology shows marked increase in departmental peer-reviewed publications following implementation of the peer-mentorship program led by resident physicians.
An international team of researchers, including Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer, has conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity with some of the most rigorous tests yet.