Summer, 2011

Fernanda Almeida , assistant professor, Department of Oral Health Sciences, was guest editor for Sleep and Breathing (May 2011), an international journal of the science and practice of sleep medicine. It is the official journal of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and other dental sleep medicine organizations in Europe and Asia. Dr. Almeida, who regularly contributes as associate editor, notes in her guest editorial, “Dental Sleep Medicine in Education, Practice and Research,” that this special issue features a significant number of excellent articles in the fi eld of dental sleep medicine. For the first time, an entire edition of Sleep and Breathing is dedicated to focusing on dentistry in sleep medicine. View the journal here.

To provide succinct and practical information about oral and maxillofacial radiology, Quintessence Publishing— an international publisher of professional and student dental and medical books, journals and multimedia products—turned to Dr. David MacDonald, a recognized expert in the field. The associate professor and chair of the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology provided a chapter on the subject for their second edition of Diagnosis and Treatment in Prosthodontics.