Main Projects:

Project 1: Prevention of Early Childhood Caries Using Fluoride Varnish

Project 2: The MAYA Project: Mother and Youth Access Program

Project 3: Cultural Barriers to Oral Health Care in Children

Project 4: The RAE (Risk Assessment for ECC) Project: Assessing and Predicting Early Childhood Caries Risk Disparities

Project 5: Hispanic Oral Health: A Rural And Urban Ethnography

Project 6: Population-Based Oral Health Study of Agricultural Worker Families

Project 7: Acceptability Study of Preventive Interventions for Reducing ECC (ASPIRE)

Project 8: Oral Gene Expression and Dental Caries Development

Pilot Projects:

Pilot 1: A Study of the Effectiveness of Povidone Iodine as an Oral Antiseptic in Children with Rampant Caries

Pilot 2: Oral Health Outcomes and Dental Care Utilization Among Pediatric Organ Transplant Recipients

Pilot 3: An Innovative Student-developed Video as a Strategy to Promote Oral Health Awareness, Education and Prevention: A Pilot Project "Telling our Own Story."

Pilot 4: Revising Dental Health Professional Shortage Area Methodology

Pilot 5: Racial and ethnic disparities in access to preventive dental services in the State of California: an analysis of the 2001 California Health Interview Survey

Pilot 6: Comparison of Mothers of Young Children with and without Early Childhood Caries

Pilot 7: A Comparative Study of Cariogenic Bacterial Populations in Children.

Pilot 8: Oral Health Care Curriculum for Child Health Consultants and Advocates

Pilot 9: Translating Informed Consent Materials from English: Effects on Readability

Pilot 10: Social Disparities in Receipt of Children’s Dental Care: Trends Over Time. Analyses of National Health Interview Survey data

Pilot 11: Survey of Registered Dental Hygienists in California: Survey Development and Field Testing