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Research Faculty Member Profile
    • Dena Fischer, DDS, MSD, MS
    • Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Program
    • Research Interests:
      • Evaluating coping mechanisms for people with chronic orofacial pains
      • Studying the relationship between burning mouth syndrome and vulvodynia in middle-aged females
      • Characterization of oral discomfort in cancer patients at the end of life
      • Comparison of orofacial pains in Multiple Sclerosis patients with and without widespread pain
      • Evaluating quality of life measures, such as pain, in patients with a history of head/neck cancer
    • Recent Publications:
      • Fischer DJ, Epstein JB. 2008. Management of patients who have undergone head and neck cancer therapy. Dent Clin North Am 52(1):39-60.
      • Epstein JB, Gorsky M, Fischer DJ, Gupta A, Epstein M, Elad S. 2007. A survey of the current approaches to diagnosis and management of oral premalignant lesions. J Am Dent Assoc 138(12):1555-62.
      • Fischer DJ, Mueller BA, Critchlow CW, LeResche L. 2006. The association of temporomandibular pain with history of head and neck injury in adolescents. J Orofac Pain 20(3):191-198.
      • Fischer DJ, Epstein JB, Morton TH, Schwartz SM. 2005. Reliability of histologic diagnosis of clinically normal intraoral tissue adjacent to clinically suspicious lesions in former upper aerodigestive tract cancer patients. Oral Oncol 41(5):489-496.
      • Fischer DJ, Epstein JB, Morton TH, Schwartz SM. 2004. Interobserver reliability in the histopathologic diagnosis of oral pre-malignant and malignant lesions. J Oral Pathol Med: 33(2):65-70.