Claudie Pascal Wins Stanford Award For Researching Tooth Bleaching Effectiveness: WebDentistry: Home of SmileFinder!
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By Mary Beth Versaci— Dr. Claudie Pascal, who graduated in May from Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in California, is the winner of the 2018 John W. Stanford New Investigator Award for her research into evaluating tooth bleaching efficacy titled "A Laboratory Model to Evaluate Tooth Bleaching Efficacy in Stained vs. Non-stained Human Teeth. " Dr Pascal received her award and presented her research paper on June 19 at the American Denal Association (ADA) Standards Committee on Dental Products and the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 106 on Dentistry meeting in Vancouver. The award is named for Dr. John W. Stanford, who was responsible for the establishment of the ADAs current standards program. Dr. Pascal used the ADAs tooth bleaching standards as a jumping-off point for her research, aiming to contribute to "potential future revisions in standards by providing solid foundation on identifying the most reliable ways to measure tooth bleaching efficacy, determining the best substrate for specimen preparation and defining how to properly interpret bleaching efficacy results with established perceptibility and acceptability thresholds," according to her award application. "External bleaching of teeth is proving to have a consistent demand, which makes the evaluation of the efficacy of the products purposed to do so increasingly important," she said.