Dentsply Sirona and AADOCR Present 2023 SCADA Award Recipients

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This year’s Student Competition for Advancing Dental Research and its Application awards go to student clinicians who have demonstrated a commitment to the future of oral science.

Dentsply Sirona and AADOCR Award 2023 SCADA Recipients | Image © Dentsply Sirona

Dentsply Sirona and AADOCR Award 2023 SCADA Recipients | Image © Dentsply Sirona

This year’s Student Competition for Advancing Dental Research and its Application (SCADA) award recipients have been announced. Co-sponsored by Dentsply Sirona, the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) gives these awards to dental students that demonstrate outstanding research skills and projects. The awards are split into 2 categories: Clinical Science & Public Health Research and Basic & Translational Science.

2023 SCADA Award Winning Projects in the Clinical Science & Public Health Research category include:

  • 1st place: Jay Dalal, University of Connecticut, School of Dental Medicine. “The Effectiveness of Current Desensitizing Agents at Hypersensitivity Prevention.”
  • 2nd place: Julia Kishanie Persaud, New York University, College of Dentistry. The Impact of Electronic Cigarette Use on the Salivary Microbiome in Periodontitis Patients.
  • 3rd Place; Mackenzie Andrews, Midwestern University. Does Mouthguard Lamination Technique affect Hockey and Baseball Impact Force?

2023 SCADA Award Winning Projects in the Basic & Translational Scienec include:

  • 1st place: Natalie Andras, The Ohio State University, College of Dentistry. Gene-Editing Provides Functional Evidence for the Ectomesenchymal Origin of Cementoblasts.
  • 2nd place: W. Benton Swanson, University of Michigan. Scaffold-based Approach to Regenerating the Cranial Structure Stem Cell Niche.
  • 3rd place: Damell Cuylear, University of California, San Francisco. Calcium Phosphate Microparticles for Dual Anti-resorptive Drug Delivery and Osteogenesis.

First, second, and third winning projects receive a cash prize respectively from $1000, $750, to $500. Dentsply Sirona is proud to support and cosponsor these prestigious research awards, according to Vice President Global Clinical Research with Dentpsly Sirona, Dr Rainer Seemann.

“Our vision at Dentsply Sirona is to transform dentistry and to improve oral health globally. This is just possible with science. What better way to help guide the future of the profession and oral health than to support science in its foundations,” Dr Seemann says in a press release from the company. “The student clinicians are the future of oral science, and we are committed to investing into this future by running the SCADA program in the last 64 years.”

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