Professor
D_Preventive & Restor Dent Sci
+1 415 502-8094
My research concentrates on oral health research, health disparities research, applied statistical analyses and related methodological issues. Balancing these components is essential to successful and practical oral epidemiology research. Methodological examination helps ground health research and build convincing arguments, while collaborative health research generates opportunities for innovative statistical practice and provides challenges for developing ways to solve real world problems
Publications
Common Data Element (CDE) Success from Community-Engagement Not Mandates: If You Build It [Data Warehouse], Will They [Participants] Come?
American Journal of Public Health
The Health Equity Action Network Research Coordinating Center Facilitates Meaningful Community Engagement to Promote Health Equity.
American Journal of Public Health
Flavored Tobacco Product Use Among California Adolescents Before and Immediately After a Statewide Flavor Ban.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Inequitable exposure to tobacco product litter among adolescents in California, USA.
Tobacco prevention & cessation
Parent-Targeted Oral Health Text Messaging for Underserved Children Attending Pediatric Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA network open
Among Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Methods, Automated Gradient-Boosting Models Accurately Score Intraoral Plaque in Non-Standardized Images.
Journal of the California Dental Association
Among Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Methods, Automated Gradient-Boosting Models Accurately Score Intraoral Plaque in Non-Standardized Images.
Journal of the California Dental Association
Census tract geospatial analysis comparing social determinants of health with tooth loss in California seniors: An ecologic study.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Cost-effectiveness analysis design for interventions to prevent children's oral disease.
Frontiers in Oral Health
Perceived discrimination and youth vaping: The role of intersectional identities.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Patterns in Tobacco, E-Cigarette, and Cannabis Advertising Exposure Among California Adolescents and Associations With Future Use Expectations.
Substance use & misuse
Impact of survey item wording on reported tobacco use among youth: effect of adding 'even one or two puffs' to use questions.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
"I think we can do without [tobacco]": support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents.
Tobacco control
Flavored Tobacco and Nicotine Use Among California Adolescents: Preferences by Use Experience and Survey Format Effects.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Asian Americans' and Pacific Islanders' preferences in recruitment strategies and messaging for participation in the CARE registry: A discrete choice experiment.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Flavors increase adolescents' willingness to try nicotine and cannabis vape products.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Quality-Adjusted Life Year Proxies for Caries in Primary Dentition: A Discrete Choice Experiment.
JDR clinical and translational research
Calibration and reliability testing of a novel asynchronous photographic plaque scoring system in young children.
Journal of public health dentistry
Intimate Partner Violence and Orofacial Injuries in a Multi-School Dental Data Repository.
Journal of dental education
Unexpected benefits of and lessons learned from shifting to virtual focus group discussions in the BEECON trial.
BMC research notes
Integrating Oral, Physical, and Mental Health Via Public Health Literacy.
Health literacy research and practice
Collaborative Approach for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Research and Education (CARE): A recruitment registry for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, aging and caregiver-related research.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
COVID-19 Impact on Community-Based Participatory Randomized Controlled Trials-Lessons From the Oral Health Disparities in Children Consortium.
Frontiers in Dental Medicine
Coronavirus Disease Update on Epidemiology, Virology, and Prevention.
Compendium of continuing education in dentistry (Jamesburg, N.J. : 1995)
Functional adaptation of interradicular alveolar bone to reduced chewing loads on dentoalveolar joints in rats.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Family monetary incentives as a value-based care model for oral hygiene: rationale and design of the BEhavioral EConomics for Oral health iNnovation (BEECON) trial.
Journal of public health dentistry
Ectopic biomineralization in kidney stone formers compared to non-stone formers.
Translational Andrology and Urology
Perspectives on meeting the COVID-19 testing challenge: A dental school collaborative.
Journal of dental education
What Can We Learn from Parents of Caries-Free and Caries-Active Hispanic Children?
JDR clinical and translational research
Design and sample characteristics of COordinated Oral health Promotion (CO-OP) Chicago: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Contemporary clinical trials
Review of Safety, Frequency and Intervals of Preventive Fluoride Varnish Application for Children.
Journal of the California Dental Association
A qualitative study of the multi-level influences on oral hygiene practices for young children in an Early Head Start program.
BMC oral health
At the crossroads of oral health inequities and precision public health.
Journal of public health dentistry
Constructing Matched Groups in Dental Observational Health Disparity Studies for Causal Effects.
JDR clinical and translational research
Predictors of Smokeless Tobacco Susceptibility, Initiation, and Progression Over Time Among Adolescents in a Rural Cohort.
Substance use & misuse
Review of safety, frequency and intervals of fluoride varnish application for children
J Calif Dent Assoc
Oral Health Disparities in Children: A Canary in the Coalmine?
Pediatric clinics of North America
Relationship between autoantibody associated with rheumatoid arthritis and tooth loss.
Gerodontology
A novel approach for effective integration of new faculty leadership.
Journal of healthcare leadership
Case Study: School-Based Oral Health Screening in San Francisco as an Essential Public Health Service.
Journal of the California Dental Association
Mediation analysis for count and zero-inflated count data without sequential ignorability and its application in dental studies.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics
Perceived Flavored Smokeless Tobacco Ease-of-use and Youth Susceptibility.
Tobacco regulatory science
Adolescents' smokeless tobacco susceptibility by perceived professional baseball players' use.
Journal of public health dentistry
Dental Students' Clinical Experience Across Three Successive Curricula at One U.S. Dental School.
Journal of dental education
Absence of Fluoride Varnish-Related Adverse Events in Caries Prevention Trials in Young Children, United States.
Preventing chronic disease
Mediation analysis for count and zero-inflated count data.
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Retention strategies for health disparities preventive trials: findings from the Early Childhood Caries Collaborating Centers.
Journal of public health dentistry
Caries Risk Assessment Item Importance: Risk Designation and Caries Status in Children under Age 6.
JDR clinical and translational research
Geography matters: state-level variation in children's oral health care access and oral health status.
Public health
The changing tobacco landscape: What dental professionals need to know.
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)
Strontium effects on root dentin tubule occlusion and nanomechanical properties.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Oral Health Prevention and Toddler Well-Child Care: Routine Integration in a Safety Net System.
Pediatrics
Income gradients in oral health according to child age.
European journal of oral sciences
Examination criteria and calibration procedures for prevention trials of the Early Childhood Caries Collaborating Centers.
Journal of public health dentistry
Conditional risk assessment of adolescents' electronic cigarette perceptions.
American journal of health behavior
Understanding treatment effect mechanisms of the CAMBRA randomized trial in reducing caries increment.
Journal of dental research
Recruitment for health disparities preventive intervention trials: the early childhood caries collaborating centers.
Preventing chronic disease
Adaptive properties of human cementum and cementum dentin junction with age.
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Dental utilization by children in Hispanic agricultural worker families in California.
Journal of dental, oral and craniofacial epidemiology
Maternal oral bacterial levels predict early childhood caries development.
Journal of dental research
Improving Patient Care Using the Johnson-Neyman Analysis of Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects According to Individuals' Baseline Characteristics.
Journal of dental, oral and craniofacial epidemiology
Clinically determined and self-reported dental status during and after pregnancy among low-income Hispanic women.
Journal of public health dentistry
Long-term outcomes of a dental postbaccalaureate program: increasing dental student diversity and oral health care access.
Journal of dental education
An examination of racial/ethnic disparities in children's oral health in the United States.
Journal of public health dentistry
Racial disparity trends in children's dental visits: US National Health Interview Survey, 1964-2010.
Pediatrics
Dentists' attitudes, behaviors, and barriers related to tobacco-use cessation in the dental setting.
Journal of public health dentistry
Functional remineralization of dentin lesions using polymer-induced liquid-precursor process.
PloS one
Deep and superficial masseter muscle blood flow in women.
Journal of prosthodontics : official journal of the American College of Prosthodontists
The effect of training on the use of tobacco-use cessation guidelines in dental settings.
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)
Parental functional health literacy relates to skip pattern questionnaire error and to child oral health.
Journal of the California Dental Association
Caregiver acceptability and preferences for preventive dental treatments for young African-American children.
Journal of public health dentistry
A randomized clinical trial of anticaries therapies targeted according to risk assessment (caries management by risk assessment).
Caries research
Longitudinal study of the impact of incident organ manifestations and increased disease activity on work loss among persons with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Arthritis care & research
Chronic Pain in a Biracial Cohort of Young Women.
The open pain journal
Pain as a reason for primary care visits: cross-sectional survey in a rural and periurban health clinic in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Southern African Family Practice
Mother and youth access (MAYA) maternal chlorhexidine, counselling and paediatric fluoride varnish randomized clinical trial to prevent early childhood caries.
International journal of paediatric dentistry
Racial and ethnic disparities in disease activity and function among persons with rheumatoid arthritis from university-affiliated clinics.
Arthritis care & research
Brief index of lupus damage: a patient-reported measure of damage in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Arthritis care & research
Dose-Weighted Adjusted Mantel-Haenszel Tests for Numeric Scaled Strata in a Randomized Trial.
Statistics in biopharmaceutical research
Cross-sectional human mandibular morphology as assessed in vivo by cone-beam computed tomography in patients with different vertical facial dimensions.
American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics : official publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, its constituent societies, and the American Board of Orthodontics
Chronic pain in the community: a survey in a township in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Prevalence and risk indicators of chronic pain in a rural community in South Africa
J Rural and Tropical Public Health
Racial/Ethnic and gender prevalences in reported common pains in a national sample.
Journal of orofacial pain
Temporomandibular joint and muscle disorder-type pain and comorbid pains in a national US sample.
Journal of orofacial pain
Language and literacy relate to lack of children's dental sealant use.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Mothers' caries increases odds of children's caries.
Journal of dental research
Smokeless tobacco cessation cluster randomized trial with rural high school males: intervention interaction with baseline smoking.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Comparative analysis of traditional radiographs and cone-beam computed tomography volumetric images in the diagnosis and treatment planning of maxillary impacted canines.
American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics : official publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, its constituent societies, and the American Board of Orthodontics
Assessing a multilevel model of young children's oral health with national survey data.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Dental utilization among Hispanic adults in agricultural worker families in California's Central Valley.
Journal of public health dentistry
Assessment of the validity of HLD (CalMod) in identifying orthodontic treatment need.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Parental perception of oral health status of children in mainstream and special education classrooms.
Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry
Anthropometric analysis of the human mandibular cortical bone as assessed by cone-beam computed tomography.
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery : official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Caregiver acceptability and preferences for early childhood caries preventive treatments for Hispanic children.
Journal of public health dentistry
Dentin caries zones: mineral, structure, and properties.
Journal of dental research
Developing an acceptability assessment of preventive dental treatments.
Journal of public health dentistry
Patterns and correlates of spit tobacco use among high school males in rural California.
Journal of public health dentistry
Tobacco control in pediatric dental practices: a survey of practitioners.
Pediatric dentistry
Methods and software for estimating health disparities: the case of children's oral health.
American journal of epidemiology
A novel approach in assessment of coronal leakage of intraorifice barriers: a saliva leakage and micro-computed tomographic evaluation.
Journal of endodontics
Giving policy some teeth: routes to reducing disparities in oral health.
Health affairs (Project Hope)
The association between subjective social status and mental health among Asian immigrants: investigating the influence of age at immigration.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Recruiting and retaining pregnant women from a community health center at the US-Mexico border for the Mothers and Youth Access clinical trial.
Clinical trials (London, England)
Temporomandibular joint and muscle disorder-type pain in U.S. adults: the National Health Interview Survey.
Journal of orofacial pain
Dental students' knowledge, attitudes, and intended behaviors regarding caries risk assessment: impact of years of education and patient age.
Journal of dental education
Patterns and correlates of tobacco control behavior among american association of pediatric dentistry members: a cross-sectional national study.
BMC oral health
Caries risk assessment appropriate for the age 1 visit (infants and toddlers).
Journal of the California Dental Association
Periotest comes with many false alarms for predicting early implant loss.
The journal of evidence-based dental practice
Widespread pain and fibromyalgia in a biracial cohort of young women.
The Journal of rheumatology
HIPAA notice of privacy practices used in U.S. dental schools: factors related to readability or lack thereof.
Journal of dental education
Umwandlung dreidimensionaler Cone-Beam CT-Daten in rekonstruierte Fernröntgenseitenaufnahmen.
Informationen aus Orthodontie & Kieferorthopädie
Caries risk assessment in an educational environment.
Journal of dental education
Changing dentists' knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding domestic violence through an interactive multimedia tutorial.
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)
Characteristics of adolescent smoking in high school students in California.
Journal of dental hygiene : JDH
Fluoride varnish efficacy in preventing early childhood caries.
Journal of dental research
Antibacterial treatment needed for severe early childhood caries.
Journal of public health dentistry
Development and evaluation of a tobacco cessation motivational program for adolescents based on physical attractiveness and oral health.
Journal of dental hygiene : JDH
Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of An Athletic Trainer-Directed Spit (Smokeless) Tobacco Intervention for Collegiate Baseball Athletes: Results After 1 Year.
Journal of athletic training
Effectiveness of a transmucosal lidocaine delivery system for local anaesthesia during scaling and root planing.
Journal of clinical periodontology
Effect of hydration variability on hybrid layer properties of a self-etching versus an acid-etching system.
Biomaterials
Diagnoses based on the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders in a biracial population of young women.
Journal of orofacial pain
Salivary fluoride levels following application of fluoride varnish or fluoride rinse.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Comparison between traditional 2-dimensional cephalometry and a 3-dimensional approach on human dry skulls.
American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics : official publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, its constituent societies, and the American Board of Orthodontics
Baseline periodontal risk calculator score is strongly associated with alveolar bone loss and tooth loss 3, 9, and 15 years later in non-transient men.
Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice
Reliability and validity of a manual dexterity test to predict preclinical grades.
Journal of dental education
The effect of a self-etching primer on the continuous demineralization of dentin.
European journal of oral sciences
Bonded amalgam sealants and adhesive resin sealants: five-year clinical results.
Quintessence international (Berlin, Germany : 1985)
Preparing dental students to recognize and respond to domestic violence: the impact of a brief tutorial.
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)
Pulpal safety of 9.6 microm TEA CO2 laser used for caries prevention.
Lasers in surgery and medicine
Dental data mining: potential pitfalls and practical issues.
Advances in dental research
Color stability and hardness in dental composites after accelerated aging.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
The association of early childhood caries and race/ethnicity among California preschool children.
Journal of public health dentistry
Specific fibronectin fragments as markers of periodontal disease status.
Journal of periodontology
Oral screening and brief spit tobacco cessation counseling: a review and findings.
Journal of dental education
Domestic violence compared to other health risks: a survey of physicians' beliefs and behaviors.
American journal of preventive medicine
Bacterial, behavioral and environmental factors associated with early childhood caries.
The Journal of clinical pediatric dentistry
Ultimate tensile strength of dentin: Evidence for a damage mechanics approach to dentin failure.
Journal of biomedical materials research
Assessing bias of multicenter trials with incomplete treatment allocation.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Etching characteristics of dentin: effect of ferric chloride in citric acid.
Journal of oral rehabilitation
Demineralization of caries-affected transparent dentin by citric acid: an atomic force microscopy study.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Mechanical properties of the dentinoenamel junction: AFM studies of nanohardness, elastic modulus, and fracture.
Journal of biomedical materials research
Citric acid etching of cervical sclerotic dentin lesions: an AFM study.
Journal of biomedical materials research
AFM study of citric acid-ferric chloride etching characteristics of dentin.
American journal of dentistry
Cysteine protease inhibitory activity and levels of salivary cystatins in whole saliva of periodontally diseased patients.
Journal of periodontal research
A public health vs a risk-based intervention to improve cardiovascular health in elementary school children: the Cardiovascular Health in Children Study.
American journal of public health
The relationship between chronic facial pain and a history of trauma and surgery.
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics
Complex sampling: implications for data analysis.
Journal of public health dentistry
Failure load of acrylic resin denture teeth bonded to high impact acrylic resins.
The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
Two-year incidence of tooth loss among South Australians aged 60+ years.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Leisure time activities of elementary school children.
Nursing research
Effects of a school-based intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in elementary-school children: the Cardiovascular Health in Children (CHIC) study.
The Journal of pediatrics
Statistical Considerations for Multiplicity in Confirmatory Protocols.
Therapeutic innovation & regulatory science
Childhood obesity elevates blood pressure and total cholesterol independent of physical activity.
International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
Statistical evaluation of relationships between analgesic dose and ordered ratings of pain relief over an eight-hour period.
Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics
Assessing the effectiveness of lay health advisors with migrant farmworkers.
Family & Community Health