Holding up the oral health safety net: the role of National Health Service Corps alumni dentists in North CarolinaNeel B Bhatavadekar
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Int Dent J 61:136-43. 2011
..Access to oral health care among low income populations is a growing problem. The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) might increase the supply of dentists motivated to provide services for this population...
Squamous cell carcinoma in association with dental implants: an assessment of previously hypothesized carcinogenic mechanisms and a case reportNeel B Bhatavadekar
Dental Specialty Center, Bombay Hospital Research Center, Mumbai, India
J Oral Implantol 38:792-8. 2012
..Dental implants are a safe treatment modality based on the published data, and any change in surgical protocol is not mandated...
Assessing the evidence supporting the claims of select dental implant surfaces: a systematic reviewNeel Bhatavadekar
Int Dent J 58:363-70. 2008
..The objective of this review was to examine peer-reviewed literature to assess the strength of evidence to support selected claims, to help clinicians in making evidence-based decisions...
The use of digital volume tomography in imaging an unusually large composite odontoma in the mandibleNeel B Bhatavadekar
Department of Periodontics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA
Pediatr Dent 31:438-41. 2009
..This case highlights the importance of early diagnosis and intervention for treating on odontoma while demonstrating the value of tomographic imaging as on aid to diagnosis...
Modulation of the host inflammatory response in periodontal disease management: exciting new directionsNeel B Bhatavadekar
Int Dent J 59:305-8. 2009
..This review examines periodontal disease in the light of a new understanding of the role of inflammation in disease expression thus setting the stage for the development of new prevention and treatment strategies of a widespread disease...
Helping the clinician make evidence-based implant selections. A systematic review and qualitative analysis of dental implant studies over a 20 year periodNeel Bhatavadekar
Department of Periodontology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA
Int Dent J 60:359-69. 2010
..To the best of the author's knowledge, there is no such systematic review available which assesses studies over a wide time period. This current report thus seeks to fill this void...
Novel application of cytodetachment technology to the analysis of dental implant surfacesNeel B Bhatavadekar
Department of Periodontology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 26:985-90. 2011
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Clinical decisions and the quality of evidence available for dental implantsNeel Bhatavadekar
Department of Periodontology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA
J Periodontol 80:1559-61. 2009
..Also, the standardization of study-reporting criteria might enable comparisons across implant systems in the future...
Oral and maxillofacial pathology case of the month. Plasma cell gingivitisNeel Bhatavadekar
Department of Periodontics, University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Tex Dent J 125:372-3, 380-3. 2008