College of Dentistry
Daniel McNeil Research Group
Led by Daniel W McNeil · Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science
What we study
Daniel McNeil's group studies fear and anxiety about dental care and how to help dentists work with young children and their families. Current projects train pediatric dental providers in behavioral skills, build a shared vocabulary (ontology) for dental fear, and grow practice-based dental research.
What working here is like
- Surveys & interviews
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Implementing Evidence-based Behavioral Skills in Pediatric Oral Healthcare Providers
This project focuses on improving behavioral skills in pediatric dental providers.
Developing an Ontology for Dental Care-Related Fear and Anxiety
This project aims to understand and categorize dental fear and anxiety to improve care utilization.
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Development of Opportunities for Research (DOOR) in Dental Schools
This project creates interdisciplinary research opportunities for dental schools.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Rediscovering Motivational Interviewing Spirit
2026 · Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Defines motivational interviewing techniques and spirit for patient care.
- Multiancestral GWAS of Dental Malocclusion Identifies Multiple Risk Loci
2026 · Journal of Dental Research
Finds genetic links to dental malocclusion in diverse populations.
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- Curriculum Guidelines for Social and Behavioral Sciences in Predoctoral Dental Education
2026 · Journal of Dental Education
Updates dental education guidelines for social and behavioral sciences.
- ACCELERATE-BASSO: early experiences and emerging best practices for ontology development in behavioral and social science research
2026 · Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Develops ontologies to standardize behavioral and social science research.
- Social determinants of health as predictors of latent symptom clusters in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: A secondary analysis of the HOPE consortium randomized trial
2026 · Journal of Pain
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
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