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Research and Publications

  • Nasiha Maliq, N., Ong, T., Giano, Z., Rivera, W., & Tiwari, T. (2024). Comparing two large data repositories to understand the differences in demographics, health history, and behavioral attributes in populations. Frontiers in Oral Health, 5, 1427109. https://doi.org/10.3389/froh.2024.1427109
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., & Wolff, L. F. (2024). Survival rate of implants performed at sites of previously failed implants and factors associated with failure: A retrospective investigation. Journal of dental sciences, 19(3), 1741–1747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2023.10.012 
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., & Wolff, L. F. (2024). No association between periodontitis extent, severity, and progression rate with dental implant failure. Journal of stomatology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, 102123. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jormas.2024.102123 
  • Swinckels, L., Keijzer, A., Loos, B. G., Applegate, R. J., Kookal, K. K., Kalenderian, E., Bijwaard, H., & Bruers, J. J. M. (2024). A Personalized Periodontitis Risk Based on Nonimage Electronic Dental Records by Machine Learning. Journal of dentistry, 105469. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdent.2024.105469                                                                                                                      
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., Jiang, Z., Marka, N., & Wolff, L. F. (2024). Periodontal Disease, Tooth Loss, and Systemic Conditions: An Exploratory Study. International dental journal, 74(2), 207–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.identj.2023.08.002
  • Kookal, K. K., Walji, M. F., Brandon, R., Kivanc, F., Mertz, E., Kottek, A., Mullins, J., Liang, S., Jenson, L. E., & White, J. M. (2024). Systematically assessing the quality of dental electronic health record data for an investigation into oral health care disparities. Journal of public health dentistry, 10.1111/jphd.12618. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12618
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., Jiang, Z., Marka, N., & Wolff, L. F. (2023). Association between Periodontitis Extent, Severity, and Progression Rate with Systemic Diseases and Smoking: A Retrospective Study. Journal of personalized medicine, 13(5), 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13050814
  • Saleh, M. H. A., Decker, A., Tattan, M., Tattan, O., Decker, J., Alrmali, A., & Wang, H. L. (2023). Supplement Consumption and Periodontal Health: An Exploratory Survey Using the BigMouth Repository. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 59(5), 919. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59050919
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., & Wolff, L. F. (2023). Retrospective analysis of 50,333 implants on implant failure and associated patient-related factors. Journal of stomatology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, 124(6S), 101555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jormas.2023.101555
  • Rodriguez, J. L., Thakkar-Samtani, M., Heaton, L. J., Tranby, E. P., & Tiwari, T. (2023). Caries risk and social determinants of health: A big data report. Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 154(2), 113–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2022.10.006
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., Jiang, Z., Marka, N., & Wolff, L. F. (2023). Relationship of Medication Intake and Systemic Conditions with Periodontitis: A Retrospective Study. Journal of personalized medicine, 13(10), 1480. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13101480
  • Saleh, M. H. A., Decker, A., & Wang, H. L. (2023). Using the BigMouth repository for periodontal medicine: Breaking the chains?. Journal of periodontology, 94(3), 311–312. https://doi.org/10.1002/JPER.22-0475
  • Chatzopoulos, G. S., & Wolff, L. F. (2022). Survival Rates and Factors Affecting the Outcome Following Immediate and Delayed Implant Placement: A Retrospective Study. Journal of clinical medicine, 11(15), 4598. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11154598 
  • Walji, M. F., Spallek, H., Kookal, K. K., Barrow, J., Magnuson, B., Tiwari, T., Oyoyo, U., Brandt, M., Howe, B. J., Anderson, G. C., White, J. M., & Kalenderian, E. (2022). BigMouth: development and maintenance of a successful dental data repository. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 29(4), 701–706. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocac001
  • Tokede, B., Yansane, A., White, J., Bangar, S., Mullins, J., Brandon, R., Gantela, S., Kookal, K., Rindal, D., Lee, C. T., Lin, G. H., Spallek, H., Kalenderian, E., & Walji, M. (2022). Translating periodontal data to knowledge in a learning health system. Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 153(10), 996–1004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2022.06.007
  • Bangar, S., Neumann, A., White, J. M., Yansane, A., Johnson, T. R., Olson, G. W., Kumar, S. V., Kookal, K. K., Kim, A., Obadan-Udoh, E., Mertz, E., Simmons, K., Mullins, J., Brandon, R., Walji, M. F., & Kalenderian, E. (2022). Caries Risk Documentation And Prevention: eMeasures For Dental Electronic Health Records. Applied clinical informatics, 13(1), 80–90. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1740920 
  • Tungare, S. S. (2022). Opioid and antibiotic prescribing in the US academic dental setting (Order No. 30314228). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Health Research Premium Collection. (2817287894). Retrieved from http://www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/opioid-antibiotic-prescribing-us-academic-dental/docview/2817287894/se-2 
  • Coggins, K., Husain, A., Parsegian, K., & Whitson, J. T. (2021). Association between poor oral health and risk of glaucoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 62(8), 1605-1605. https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2775177 
  • Ngantcha, P., Amith, M. T., Roberts, K., Valenza, J. A., Walji, M., & Tao, C. (2021). Dental EHR-infused Persona Ontologies to Enrich Dental Dialogue Interaction of Agents. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2021, 1818–1825. https://doi.org/10.1109/bibm52615.2021.9669748
  • Messing, M., Souza, L. C., Cavalla, F., Kookal, K. K., Rizzo, G., Walji, M., Silva, R., & Letra, A. (2019). Investigating Potential Correlations between Endodontic Pathology and Cardiovascular Diseases Using Epidemiological and Genetic Approaches. Journal of endodontics, 45(2), 104–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joen.2018.10.014 
  • Neumann, A., Kalenderian, E., Ramoni, R., Yansane, A., Tokede, B., Etolue, J., Vaderhobli, R., Simmons, K., Even, J., Mullins, J., Kumar, S., Bangar, S., Kookal, K., White, J., & Walji, M. (2017). Evaluating quality of dental care among patients with diabetes: Adaptation and testing of a dental quality measure in electronic health records. Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 148(9), 634–643.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2017.04.017 
  • Bhardwaj, A., Ramoni, R., Kalenderian, E., Neumann, A., Hebballi, N. B., White, J. M., McClellan, L., & Walji, M. F. (2016). Measuring up: Implementing a dental quality measure in the electronic health record context. Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 147(1), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2015.06.023 
  • Kalenderian, E., Tokede, B., Ramoni, R., Khan, M., Kimmes, N., White, J., Vaderhobli, R., Yansane, A., Feilzer, A., & Walji, M. (2016). Dental clinical research: an illustration of the value of standardized diagnostic terms. Journal of public health dentistry, 76(2), 152–156. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12124
  • Sajadi, A. (2015). Clinical accuracy of pre-doctoral periodontal education in the US: An evaluation of the generalist and specialist teaching models on periodontal education (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston). https://www.proquest.com/docview/1707627768?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses 
  • Walji, M. F., Kalenderian, E., Stark, P. C., White, J. M., Kookal, K. K., Phan, D., Tran, D., Bernstam, E. V., & Ramoni, R. (2014). BigMouth: a multi-institutional dental data repository. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 21(6), 1136–1140. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002230 
  • Joshi, N., Hamdan, A. M., & Fakhouri, W. D. (2014). Skeletal malocclusion: a developmental disorder with a life-long morbidity. Journal of clinical medicine research, 6(6), 399–408. https://doi.org/10.14740/jocmr1905w 
  • Tran, D. T. (2013). Partial-mouth periodontal examination protocol for estimation of prevalence, severity and extent of periodontitis (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas School of Public Health).https://www.proquest.com/docview/1475227968?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses 

Research projects supported(Ongoing and Completed)

  • BM-DR1 and BM-DR2: Duong Tran(2012): Partial Mouth Periodontal Examination Protocol for Estimation of Prevalence and Severity of Periodontitis
  • BM-DR3: Ali Sajadi (2015): Clinical Accuracy of Pre-doctoral Periodontal Education in the US: An Evaluation of the Generalist and Specialist Teaching Models on Periodontal Education.
  • BM-DR4: Duong Tran, Isabel Gay, Angel Rivera, Muhammad Walji (2015): Association Between Obesity and Periodontitis: Cross-sectional Study on Patients Visiting Universities' Dental Clinics in the United States.
  • BM-DR5: Britta Magnuson (2015): Comparing Amalgam Vs Composite Usage in US Dental Schools.
  • BM-DR6: Britta Magnuson (2015): A Multi-Institutional Review of Age Associated Care.
  • BM-DR7: Oluwabunmi Tokede(2015): The Early Preventive Dental Visit
  • BM-DR8: Bradley Adams, Kenneth Aschheim (2016): Use of BigMouth Data in Odontosearch Database.
  • BM-DR9: Ed Pantzlaff, Sharon Aronovich(2017): Assess General Management Trends and Timelines with a Special Emphasis on Bone Grafting for Patients with Congenitally Missing Teeth
  • BM-DR10: Karen Komitas, Effie Ioannidou (2018): Age- and Gender-Associated Differences in Epidemiology of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Hemodialysis and Their Influence on Outcomes of Periodontal Therapy.
  • BM-DR11: Karen Komitas, Arif Salman Abdul ShakoreEffie Ioannidou (2018): Age- and Gender-Associated Differences in the Prevalence of Chronic Periodontal Disease and Outcomes of Periodontal Treatment.
  • BM-DR12: Karen Komitas, Arif Salman Abdul Shakore,Effie Ioannidou (2018): Development of Personalized Multivariate Computational Models to Predict the Risk of Development of Periodontitis and Frequency of Periodontal Maintenance Therapy.
  • BM-DR13: Hend Alqaderi, Hesham Alhazmi, Mary Tavares(2018): Composite Restorations; Incidence of Endodontic Complications and Additional Treatments
  • BM-DR14: Joel White, Howard Pollick, Enihomo Obadan Udoh, Sangeetha Gajendran Sarah (2019): Quality Evaluation of An Electronic Health Record and A Large Dental Data Repository.
  • BM-DR15: Tamanna Tiwari, Juan L. Rodriguez, Eric P. Tranby, Abigail Kelly, Julie Franstsve-Hawley (2021): Caries Risk and Social Determinants of Health
  • BM-DR16: Sayali Tungare, Muhammad Walji (2021): Opioid and Antibiotic Prescribing in the US Academic Dental Setting .
  • BM-DR17: So Ran Kwon, Udochukwu Oyoyo, Seth A. Wiafe, John Won (2021): Relationship of Patient Demographics on the Frequency of Teledentistry eVisits Provided by Institution.
  • BM-DR18: Neha Parikh, Cameroon Jeter, Pooja Krishnaswamy(2021): Assessment of the Correlation Between Dementia and Oral Health Using the BigMouth Dental Data Repository
  • BM-DR19: Tamanna Tiwari, Sangeetha Chandrasekaran, Nihmath Nasiha, Zachary Giano (2021): Assessing the Completeness of the EHR Data in the BigMouth Dental Data Repository.
  • BM-DR20: Erin Jorgensen, Kerri Font, Tamanna Tiwari, Greg L. Kinney(2021): Evaluation of Periodontal Disease and COPD in Patients Using BigMouth
  • BM-DR21: Sameha Abdulbaki, Tamanna Tiwari(2022): Social Determinants of Adolescent Dental Use of Preventive and Restorative Services A Big Data Study
  • BM-DR22: Marc Wein, Nicha Tokavanich, Wanida Ono, Sudarat Kiat-amnuay(2022): The Effect of Hyperparathyroidism on Alveolar Bone and Periodontium
  • BM-DR23: Muhammed H. Saleh, Ann Decker, Andrea Ravidà, Hom-Lay Wang(2022): Creation of An Integrated Risk Assessment Tool for Progression of Periodontitis Into the New Stage and Grade Classification
  • BM-DR24: Uyen-Sa D. T. Nguyen(2022): Investigating the Bidirectional Association between Periodontitis and Type 2 Diabetes
  • BM-DR25: Georgios Chatzopoulos, Larry F. Wolff(2022): Factors Associated with Periodontitis and Tooth Loss: Electronic Dental Record-based Retrospective Study Utilizing the "BigMouth Oral Data Repository"
  • BM-DR26: Rohit U. Nair(2022): Xerostomia Among Older Adult Patients Attending University-affiliated Dental Clinics in the United States Prevalence and Associated Factors Based
  • BM-DR27: Georgios Chatzopoulos(2022): Factors Associated with Implant Failure-Electronic Dental Record-based Retrospective Study
  • BM-DR28: Bruers J .J. M, Laura Swinckels, Ander de Keijzer (2022): Developing a Deep Learning Model to Predict the Risk for Periodontitis Using Data in BigMouth
  • BM-DR29: Karen Komitas (2023): Age, Sex, and Race-associated Differences in the Prevalence of Periodontal and Endodontic Conditions and Outcomes of Surgical and Non-surgical Periodontal and Endodontic Treatment
  • BM-DR30: Alysse Wurcel, Jayapriyaa R. Shanmugham, Adrianne Gladden-Young, Leo Westgard (2023): Antibiotics and Dental Infections: An Analysis of Racial Differences and Disparities 
  • BM-DR31: Tamanna Tiwari(2023): Impact of Structural determinants on Oral Health Inequities in Hispanic Children
  • BM-DR32: So Ran Kwon(2023): Caries Risk Assessment and Management by Dental Institution: A Cross-Sectional Study using BigMouth Data
  • BM-DR33: Sabeti Mike, Tong Angelina (2024): Outcomes of Immediate Implants in Sites of Apical Periodontitis: A Retrospective Study
  • BM-DR34: Erica Teixeira, Akimasa Tsujimoto, Daniel Caplan, Chandler Pendleton, J.C. Thomas (2024): Comparative Analysis of the Longevity of Restorations in Older Adults Using the BigMouth Dental Data Repository
  • BM-DR35: Priyanshi Ritwik, Kendra Petite (2024): Impact of Insurance Type on Completion of Dental Treatment in Pediatric Patients
  • BM-DR36: Joel White, Jing Cheng, Yim-Sang Yu (2024): Association Between Caries Risk and Pulpal Inflammation with Cardiovascular Disease: Insights from Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA)
  • BM-DR37: Katie Jehle, Steven Marshall, Clare Caruso, Lina Maria Moreno Uribe, Kyungsup Shin (2024): Clinical Presentation of Maxillary and Mandibular Third Molars at the Time of Extraction

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