During the 2024 American Association of Endodontists annual meeting in Los Angeles, April 17, the 2023 Journal of Endodontics Paper of the Year Award in Clinical Research was presented to Pitt Dental Medicine faculty members Ariadne Letra, DDS, PhD, (lead author), Renato Silva, DDS, PhD, and Leticia Chaves de Souza, DDS, PhD, (coauthors) for their paper “Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Novel Risk Loci for Apical Periodontitis”.
Pictured left to right are Drs. De Souza, Silva and Letra with Journal of Endodontics editor-in-chief, Dr. Kenneth Hargreaves.