Professor
Preventive & Restorative Dental Sciences
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Dr. Sunita Ho is a bioengineer who focuses on studies related to biomineralization, biomechanics, and biomaterials. She is a Professor in the Department of Urology, School of Medicine, and in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences (PRDS), School of Dentistry. Dr. Ho focuses on site-specific interventions to mitigate the beginnings of pathologic formations of biomaterials in humans. She investigates the regenerative aspects of soft and hard tissue attachments within craniofacial and musculoskeletal joints. Using biomechanics and mechanobiological approaches, Dr. Ho maps the special and temporal aspects of “mechano-responsiveness.”
Publications
Silver diamine fluoride differentially affects dentin and hypomineralized enamel permeabilities.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Contact ratio and adaptations in the maxillary and mandibular dentoalveolar joints in rats and human clinical analogs.
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Standardization of mineral density maps of physiologic and pathologic biominerals in humans using cone-beam CT and micro-CT scanners.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Mineralized Peyronie's plaque has a phenotypic resemblance to bone.
Acta biomaterialia
Corrigendum to "Physicochemical and biochemical spatiotemporal maps of a mouse penis". [J. Biomech. 101 (2020) 109637].
Journal of biomechanics
Functional adaptation of interradicular alveolar bone to reduced chewing loads on dentoalveolar joints in rats.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Structural and chemical heterogeneities of primary hyperoxaluria kidney stones from pediatric patients.
Journal of pediatric urology
Physicochemical and biochemical spatiotemporal maps of a mouse penis.
Journal of biomechanics
Re: Geobiology Reveals How Human Kidney Stones Dissolve In Vivo.
European urology
Architecture-Guided Fluid Flow Directs Renal Biomineralization.
Scientific reports
A continuum of mineralization from human renal pyramid to stones on stems.
Acta biomaterialia
A Force on the Crown and Tug of War in the Periodontal Complex
Journal of Dental Research (Invited Submission, under review)
Micro-anatomical responses in the periodontal complex to calibrated orthodontic forces on the crown
Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research (Invited Submission; under review)
Periodontal Ligament Entheses and their Adaptive Role in the Context of Dentoalveolar Joint Function
Dental Materials (Invited Submission; under review)
Periodontal ligament entheses and their adaptive role in the context of dentoalveolar joint function.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
The origins of urinary stone disease: upstream mineral formations initiate downstream Randall's plaque.
BJU international
A Critical Role of TRPM7 As an Ion Channel Protein in Mediating the Mineralization of the Craniofacial Hard Tissues.
Frontiers in physiology
Effect of proteoglycans at interfaces as related to location, architecture, and mechanical cues.
Archives of oral biology
Biomechanics and strain mapping in bone as related to immediately-loaded dental implants.
Journal of biomechanics
Essential role of osterix for tooth root but not crown dentin formation.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Differentiating Zones at Periodontal Ligament-Bone and Periodontal Ligament-Cementum Entheses
Journal of Periodontal Research
Removal of SOST or blocking its product sclerostin rescues defects in the periodontitis mouse model.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) cementum-dentin junction: a functionally graded biointerphase.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Adaptive properties of human cementum and cementum dentin junction with age.
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
In situ compressive loading and correlative noninvasive imaging of the bone-periodontal ligament-tooth fibrous joint.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Biomechanical adaptation of the bone-periodontal ligament (PDL)-tooth fibrous joint as a consequence of disease.
Journal of biomechanics
Acetic and lactic acids create different artificial dentin lesions: kinetics, ultrastructure and mechanical properties (under review)
Acetic and lactic acids create different artificial dentin lesions: kinetics, ultrastructure and mechanical properties (under review)
The adaptive nature of the bone-periodontal ligament-cementum complex in a ligature-induced periodontitis rat model.
BioMed research international
BMI1 represses Ink4a/Arf and Hox genes to regulate stem cells in the rodent incisor.
Nature cell biology
Biomechanics of a bone-periodontal ligament-tooth fibrous joint
Journal of biomechanics
Biomechanics of a bone-periodontal ligament-tooth fibrous joint.
Journal of biomechanics
Matrix metalloproteinase-13 is required for osteocytic perilacunar remodeling and maintains bone fracture resistance.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Functional remineralization of dentin lesions using polymer-induced liquid-precursor process.
PloS one
Effects of biglycan on physico-chemical properties of ligament-mineralized tissue attachment sites
Archives of oral biology
Imaging an Adapted Dentoalveolar Complex
Anatomy Research International
PLoS One
Age-related adaptation of bone-PDL-tooth complex: Rattus-Norvegicus as a model system
Reduced functional loads alter the physical characteristics of the bone-periodontal ligament-cementum complex.
Journal of Periodontal Research
Multiple effects of the cellular prion protein on tooth development.
The International journal of developmental biology
In vitro study of the soft tissue effects of microsecond-pulsed CO(2) laser parameters during soft tissue incision and sulcular debridement.
Lasers in surgery and medicine
Structure, chemical composition and mechanical properties of coronal cementum in human deciduous molars.
Dental materials : official publication of the Academy of Dental Materials
Enhanced osteocalcin expression by osteoblast-like cells (MC3T3-E1) exposed to bioactive coating glass (SiO2-CaO-P2O5-MgO-K2O-Na2O system) ions
Acta Biomaterilia
Structure, chemical composition and mechanical properties of human and rat cementum and its interface with root dentin.
Acta biomaterialia
Advances in Polymeric Biomaterials
Surface Modification of Articulating Surfaces and
Tribological Evaluation
Tribology International
Conductive Composite of UHMWPE and CB as a Dynamic Contact Analysis Sensor
The cementum-dentin junction also contains glycosaminoglycans and collagen fibrils.
Journal of structural biology
Local properties of a functionally graded interphase between cementum and dentin.
Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A
Experimental and numerical modeling of variable friction between nanoregions in coventional and crosslinked UHMWPE.
Journal of biomechanical engineering
Ultrastructure and nanomechanical properties of cementum dentin junction.
Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A
Frictional properties of poly(MPC-co-BMA) phospholipid polymer for catheter applications.
Biomaterials
Nanoindentation properties of compression-moulded ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
In vitro evaluation of phosphonylated low-density polyethylene for vascular applications.
Journal of biomedical materials research
Effects of the sample preparation temperature on the nanostructure of compression moulded ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Wear
Nanotribology of CoCr-UHMWPE TJR Prosthesis Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
Failure analysis of anatomic porous hip replacement (APR IIS)
Determination of the PULSTAR Reactor Neutron Energy Spectrum, Journal of Energy Conversion and Management
Determination of the PULSTAR Reactor Neutron Energy Spectrum, Journal of Energy Conversion and Management
Interaction of Thermal-Radiation with Laminar Natural-Convection from a Horizontal Cylinder in Air, Warme und Stoffunbertragung-Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, 26(2), 65-69
Interaction of Thermal-Radiation with Laminar Natural-Convection from a Horizontal Cylinder in Air, Warme und Stoffunbertragung-Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, 26(2), 65-69