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Research and Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 

Publications acknowledging BigMouth

  • 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

  • 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 

  • 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

  • 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 

Select published research work

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 

  • 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 

  • 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

  • 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 

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  • Kookal K, Bangar S, Joseph A, Kalenderian E, Walji M, Implementing a Dental Quality Measure in BigMouth: A multi-institutional dental data repository, 2018 AMIA (San Francisco, California)

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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: Antibiotics and Dental Infections(2023): An Analysis of Racial Differences and Disparities 2023 Alysse Wurcel, Jayapriyaa R. Shanmugham, Adrianne Gladden-Young, Leo Westgard

  • 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