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The Annual Meeting for the International Association for Dental Research and the American Association for Dental Resarch was held virtually this past week, July 21-24. Iowa was strongly represented at the meeting with numerous presentations from faculty and students, many of whom received honors or awards at the virtual.

The Iowa Department of Human Services and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded an interdisciplinary team of investigators from the University of Iowa Public Policy Center’s Health Policy Research Program, which included the College of Dentistry's Susan McKernan, Julie Reynolds, and Pete Damiano, a five-year extension of their project evaluating the Iowa Wellness Plan, Iowa’s version of the Medicaid expansion. This award will focus on several different aspects of the Iowa Wellness Plan, including the Health Behaviors Incentive Program, the Dental Wellness Plan, and the Waiver of Retroactive Eligibility. 

The medical equipment manufacturer SONENDO of California gave Dr. Fabricio Teixeira, professor and head of the Department of Endodontics, and his team an award valued at $539K for their 1-year clinical project, “Effectiveness of GentleWave on the Healing of Apical Periodontitis: a prospective cohort study.”

The Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation awarded Dr. Leonardo Marchini a grant to support the final step in the development of a tool to measure the degree of ageism among dental students. The tool will be used to develop and evaluate specific strategies for addressing ageism among dental students with the goal of improving the oral health of older adults.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded Dr. Cristina Vidal a 5-year grant totaling over $700K for her research project studying the relationship between caries and the oral microbiome. Read more on the College of Dentistry website.