Jurkovich, Mark W., DDS, Research Investigator

Maldonado-Ortiz, José Orlando, DDS, PhD, Asst. Research Investigator 2022 -

Michalowicz, Bryan S., DDS, Research Investigator 2016 -

Rindal, D. Brad, DDS, Sr. Research Investigator and Associate Dental Director for Research

Worley, Donald C. , Dental Clinical Quality & Ops Consultant

"I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion. 

Healthcare. 2024

Patient and dentist perspectives on collecting patient reported outcomes after painful dental procedures in the National Dental PBRN. 

BMC oral health. 2024

Survival analysis of posterior composite restorations in National Dental PBRN general dentistry practices. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2024

Characteristics of dentists in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2023

Clinical decision support to reduce opioid prescriptions for dental extractions using SMART on FHIR: implementation report. 

JMIR medical informatics. 2023

De-Implementing Opioids for Dental Extractions (DIODE): a multi-clinic, cluster-randomized trial of clinical decision support strategies in dentistry. 

Implementation science. 2023

De-implementing opioid prescribing in a dental group practice: lessons learned. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2023

Periodontal treatment and subsequent clinical outcomes and medical care costs: a retrospective cohort study. 

PloS One. 2023

Perspectives on the future of dissemination and implementation research in oral and craniofacial sciences. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2023

Practitioner/practice- and patient-based factors contributing to dental practitioner treatment recommendations for patients with pain-related TMDs: findings from the National Dental PBRN. 

Journal of oral & facial pain and headache. 2023

Findings and future directions from a smoking cessation trial utilizing a clinical decision support tool. 

Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. 2022

Management of painful temporomandibular disorders: methods and overview of The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network prospective cohort study. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2022

Pain management after third molar extractions in adolescents: a qualitative study. 

BMC Pediatrics. 2022

Patient experience of post-extraction pain management. 

Front Dent Med. 2022

Root canal treatment survival analysis in National Dental PBRN practices. 

Journal of Dental Research. 2022

Structure, function, and productivity from the National Dental Practice Based Research Network. 

Journal of clinical and translational science. 2022

Study protocol: understanding pain after dental procedures, an observational study within the National Dental PBRN. 

BMC oral health. 2022

Translating periodontal data to knowledge in a learning health system. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2022

De-implementing opioid use and implementing optimal pain management following dental extractions (DIODE): protocol for a cluster randomized trial. 

JMIR research protocols. 2021

Leveraging clinical decision support and integrated medical-dental electronic health records to implementing precision in oral cancer risk assessment and preventive intervention. 

Journal of personalized medicine. 2021

Patient, provider type, and procedure type factors associated with opioid prescribing by dentists in a health care system. 

Journal of Pain Research. 2021

Quantifying dental office-originating adverse events: the Dental Practice Study methods. 

Journal of patient safety. 2021

Assessing the patient safety culture in dentistry. 

JDR clinical and translational research. 2020

Creating systems aligned with the triple-aim and value-based care. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2020

Dental Decision Simulation (DDSim): development of a virtual training environment. 

Journal of Dental Education. 2020

Leveraging electronic dental record data for clinical research in the National Dental PBRN practices. 

Applied Clinical Informatics. 2020

Practitioner engagement in activities of the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN): 7-year results. 

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2020

SMARTp: a SMART design for nonsurgical treatments of chronic periodontitis with spatially referenced and nonrandomly missing skewed outcomes. 

Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift. 2020

Concordance between practitioner questionnaire responses and observed clinical treatment recommendations for treatment of dentin hypersensitivity: findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

BMC oral health. 2019

Feasibility and acceptance of oral human papillomavirus detection in the dental office: results from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2019

Training experiences regarding pain management, addiction, and drug diversion of dentists enrolled in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Substance Abuse. 2019

Dentists' decision strategies for suspicious occlusal caries lesions in a National Dental PBRN study. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2018

Influence of 2 caries-detecting devices on clinical decision making and lesion depth for suspicious occlusal lesions: a randomized trial from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2018

Opioid prescribing and risk mitigation implementation in the management of acute pain: results from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2018

Judgment of the quality of restorative care as predictors of restoration retreatment: findings from the National Dental PBRN. 

JDR clinical and translational research. 2017

Surface characteristics and lesion depth and activity of suspicious occlusal carious lesions: findings from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2017

Changes in diabetes medications in the Diabetes and Periodontal Therapy Trial and their effect on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). 

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2016

Serum markers of bone turnover and angiogenesis in patients with bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw after discontinuation of long-term intravenous bisphosphonate therapy. 

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2016

Systemic inflammatory biomarkers and their association with periodontal and diabetes-related factors in the Diabetes and Periodontal Therapy Trial, a randomized controlled trial. 

Journal of Periodontology. 2016

Association between low-dose aspirin and periodontal disease: results from the continuous national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES) 2011-2012. 

Journal of Clinical Periodontology. 2015

Concordance between responses to questionnaire scenarios and actual treatment to repair or replace dental restorations in the National Dental PBRN. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2015

Dental hygienists' usage of tobacco-cessation decision support tools in practice: a qualitative study

2015

Evidence supports no relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and premolar extraction: an electronic health records review. 

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2015

Evidence-based clinical practice guideline on the nonsurgical treatment of chronic periodontitis by means of scaling and root planing with or without adjuncts. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2015

Methods dentists use to diagnose primary caries lesions prior to restorative treatment: findings from The Dental PBRN. 

Texas Dental Journal. 2015

Persistence of smoking-cessation decision support use in a dental practice. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015

Provision of specific dental procedures by general dentists in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network: questionnaire findings. 

BMC oral health. 2015

Repair or replacement of restorations: a prospective cohort study by dentists in The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2015

Salivary proteomics in bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw. 

Oral Diseases. 2015

Characteristics, detection methods and treatment of questionable occlusal carious lesions: findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Caries Research. 2014

Concordance between clinical practice and published evidence: findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network (DPBRN). 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2014

Concordance between patient satisfaction and the dentist's view: findings from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2014

Dentist and practice characteristics associated with restorative treatment of enamel caries in permanent teeth: multiple-regression modeling of observational clinical data from the National Dental PBRN. 

American Journal of Dentistry. 2014

Differences between reported and actual restored caries lesion depths: results from The Dental PBRN. 

Texas Dental Journal. 2014

Integrating tobacco dependence counseling into electronic dental records: a multi-method approach. 

Journal of Dental Education. 2014

Investigation of The Omaha System for dentistry. 

Applied Clinical Informatics. 2014

Practice change toward better adherence to evidence-based treatment of early dental decay in the National Dental PBRN. 

Implementation science. 2014

Smoking cessation e-referrals: a National Dental Practice-Based Research Network randomized controlled trial. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2014

Supplementing online surveys with a mailed option to reduce bias and improve response rate: the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2014

Twenty-month follow-up of occlusal caries lesions deemed questionable at baseline: findings from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2014

Use of online sources of information by dental practitioners: findings from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2014

Agreement among dentists' restorative treatment planning thresholds for primary occlusal caries, primary proximal caries, and existing restorations: findings from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2013

Caries treatment in a dental practice-based research network: movement toward stated evidence-based treatment. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2013

Cluster effects in a National Dental PBRN restorative study. 

Journal of Dental Research. 2013

Computer-assisted guidance for dental office tobacco-cessation counseling: a randomized controlled trial. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2013

Electronic dental record use and clinical information management patterns among practitioner-investigators in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2013

Information-seeking behaviors of dental practitioners in three practice-based research networks. 

Journal of Dental Education. 2013

Measuring the impact of practice-based research networks on member dentists in the Collaboration on Networked Dental and Oral Health Research, CONDOR. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2013

ONJ in two dental practice-based research network regions. 

Texas Dental Journal. 2013

Purpose, structure, and function of the United States National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2013

The feasibility of a clinical trial of pain related to temporomandibular muscle and joint disorders: the results of a survey from the Collaboration on Networked Dental and Oral Research dental practice-based research networks. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2013

Utilization of nondentist providers and attitudes toward new provider models: findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2013

A comparison of dental restoration outcomes after placement by restorative function auxiliaries versus dentists. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2012

Components of patient satisfaction with a dental restorative visit: results from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2012

Differences between reported and actual restored caries lesion depths: results from The Dental PBRN. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2012

Large-scale clinical endodontic research in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network: study overview and methods. 

Journal of Endodontics. 2012

Not just in the "ivory tower": research in your office for your patients!. 

Northwest Dentistry. 2012

Repair or replacement of defective restorations by dentists in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2012

The prevalence of questionable occlusal caries: findings from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2012

Lessons learned during the conduct of clinical studies in the dental PBRN. 

Journal of Dental Education. 2011

ONJ in two dental practice-based research network regions. 

Journal of Dental Research. 2011

Practitioner, patient and carious lesion characteristics associated with type of restorative material: findings from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2011

Restoration of noncarious tooth defects by dentists in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2011

The effect of electronic health records on the use of clinical care guidelines for patients with medically complex conditions. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2011

Concordance between preoperative and postoperative assessments of primary caries lesion depth: results from the Dental PBRN. 

Operative Dentistry. 2010

Dentists' use of caries risk assessment in children: findings from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

General Dentistry. 2010

General practitioners' use of caries-preventive agents in adult patients versus pediatric patients: findings from the dental practice-based research network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2010

Institutional review board and regulatory solutions in the dental PBRN. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2010

Methods dentists use to diagnose primary caries lesions prior to restorative treatment: findings from The Dental PBRN. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2010

Pay-for-performance in dentistry: what we know. 

Journal for Healthcare Quality. 2010

Preferences for caries prevention agents in adult patients: findings from the dental practice-based research network. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2010

Reasons for placement of restorations on previously unrestored tooth surfaces by dentists in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2010

Restorative treatment thresholds for occlusal primary caries among dentists in the dental practice-based research network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2010

Use of caries-preventive agents in children: findings from the dental practice-based research network. 

Oral health & preventive dentistry. 2010

Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: clinical features, risk factors, management, and treatment outcomes of 26 patients. 

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2009

Dentists in practice-based research networks have much in common with dentists at large: evidence from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

General Dentistry. 2009

How dentists diagnose and treat defective restorations: evidence from the dental practice-based research network. 

Operative Dentistry. 2009

Practices participating in a dental PBRN have substantial and advantageous diversity even though as a group they have much in common with dentists at large. 

BMC oral health. 2009

Restorative treatment thresholds for interproximal primary caries based on radiographic images: findings from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

General Dentistry. 2009

Clinical inertia in dentistry: a review of the phenomenon. 

Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice. 2008

Exploring the contributions of components of caries risk assessment guidelines. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2008

Oral health program preferences among pregnant women in a managed care organization. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2008

The creation and development of the dental practice-based research network. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2008

Outcomes associated with dentists' risk assessment. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2006

Antidepressant xerogenic medications and restoration rates. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2005

Addressing knowledge gaps [editorial]. 

Journal of the American Dental Association.  152. 2021

Engaging clinicians in research [editorial]. 

Journal of the American Dental Association.  149. 2018

Promoting oral health care because of its possible effect on systemic disease is premature and may be misleading [editorial]. 

Journal of the American Dental Association.  149. 2018

Practice-based research in large group dental practices. 

Clinical research in oral health. 2010

De-implementing reliance on opioid analgesics to manage postoperative pain following dental extractions [symposium: Implementation Strategies to Reduce Opioid Use in Oral Health]

2021

Current HPV prevention practices and attitudes in Minnesota dental clinics [poster: SCADA - Clinical Science/Public Health Research session]

2020

Survival analysis of posterior composite restorations in National-Dental-PBRN practices [presentation: Clinical Trials I - Performance of Dental Restorations session]

2020

Hearing the patient voice on pain management after dental extractions [poster: Dental Fear Pain and Anxiety session]

2019

How do we support the decisions made by clinicians (CDS) to implement findings [symposium: The Future of Dentistry as Part of a Learning Health System]?

2019

Like pulling teeth: designing clinical decision support to improve tobacco cessation in dental practice [poster: Dental Health Services Research session]

2019

Ouch! Does going to the dentist hurt [poster: Dental Fear, Pain and Anxiety session]?

2019

Outcomes for painful TMD patients in the National Dental PBRN [presentation: Orofacial Pain session]

2019

Survival analysis of endodontically treated teeth in National-Dental-PBRN practices [keynote address: Clinical Trials I]

2019

Repair/replacement and early failures of restorations: the National-Dental-PBRN [presenation]

2013

Initial management for painful TMJD: a CONDOR Dental PBRN survey [presentation - abstract 3080]

2011

Concordance between restoration repair scenarios and actual treatment: National Dental-PBRN [poster]

2014

Could BMI be a caries risk predictor [poster]

2014

Engaging professional organizations in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network [poster]

2014

Practitioner/practice characteristics associated with dental procedure use: National Dental PBRN [poster]

2014

Sustainability and colleague influence of evidence-based change: National Dental PBRN [poster]

2014

Concordance between clinical practice & published evidence: findings from the National Dental PBRN [poster]

2013

Dental SimCare: building a simulation system to train dentists [poster]

2013

Impact of incentive payments to improve treatment [poster]

2013

Integrating medical and dental data to improve quality and safety of dental care [poster]

2013

Costs and effects of employing dental therapists [poster]

2012

Partners in practice-based research: the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network [poster]

2012

The impact of participation in a PBRN on dental practice patterns [poster]

2012

Effectiveness of computer-assisted guidance for tobacco dependence in dental offices: a randomized clinical trial [poster]

2011

Effectiveness of using e-health records to improve dental care for medically compromised patients [poster]

2011

Will dental providers use a computer-assisted guidance tool to support tobacco interventions [poster]?

2011

Comparative effectiveness of provider activation strategies using electronic health records to improve quality and safety of dental care for patients with medical conditions [poster]

2010

Dentistry — overview of artificial and augmented intelligence uses in dentistry. ADA SCDI White Paper No. 1106

2022

Oral health in America: advances and challenges

2021

Strategies for developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to foster implementation into dental practice [review]. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2022

Implementation science and periodontal practice: translation of evidence into periodontology [review]. 

Periodontology 2000. 2020

Leadership in practice-based research: the National Dental PBRN [review]. 

Journal of Dentistry. 2019

Priorities Wizard: multisite web-based primary care clinical decision support improved chronic care outcomes with high use rates and high clinician satisfaction rates [review]. 

EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019

Translational research: bringing science to the provider through guideline implementation [review]. 

Dental Clinics of North America. 2019

A network meta-analysis of interproximal oral hygiene methods in the reduction of clinical indices of inflammation [meta-analysis, review, systematic review]. 

Journal of Periodontology. 2018

Network meta-analysis of studies included in the Clinical Practice Guideline on the nonsurgical treatment of chronic periodontitis [review]. 

Journal of Clinical Periodontology. 2017

Systematic review and meta-analysis on the nonsurgical treatment of chronic periodontitis by means of scaling and root planing with or without adjuncts [meta-analysis, systematic review, review]. 

Journal of the American Dental Association. 2015

"Doctor, why does my tooth still hurt" [review]?. 

Northwest Dentistry. 2010

Pay for performance: will dentistry follow [review]?. 

BMC oral health. 2010

Assessing challenges to implementing tobacco cessation guidelines in dental offices [abstract]. 

Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021

Implementation of an electronic dental record tool to increase referrals to a tobacco counseling quit line [abstract]. 

Implementation science. 2015

Building a simulation system to train dentists to practice evidence-based dentistry [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013

Patient of two professions: medicine and dentistry [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013

Osteonecrosis of the jaw in two dental PBRN health plans [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010

Improve your practice and engage your patients: participate in the NDPBRN [interview]. 

Northwest Dentistry. 2015