{"id":326,"date":"2016-12-17T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/?p=326"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T23:00:57","slug":"new-grant-for-exploring-an-alternative-to-x-rays-for-special-needs-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/new-grant-for-exploring-an-alternative-to-x-rays-for-special-needs-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New Grant for Exploring an Alternative to X-rays for Special Needs Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOptical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an innovate technology which has the potential to serve as an alternative to dental X-rays for patients with developmental disabilities or other special needs,\u201d said Dr. Alireza Sadr, acting associate professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry at the University of Washington School of Dentistry. \u201cUniversity of Washington DECOD Clinic provides services patients with developmental and acquired disabilities. This grant is a step forward for us to demonstrate that using the newly developed imaging method early and accurate imaging of tooth in this population is possible.\u201d Dr Kimberly Espinoza of DECOD Clinic is the\u00a0co-investigator of the grant form the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentaltradealliance.org\/foundation\/grants\/grant-recipients\/university-of-washington-office-of-sponsored-programs\">Dental Trade Alliance Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOptical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an innovate technology which has the potential to serve as an alternative to dental X-rays for patients with developmental disabilities or other special needs,\u201d said Dr. Alireza Sadr, acting associate professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry at the University of Washington School of Dentistry. \u201cUniversity of Washington DECOD Clinic provides services&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/new-grant-for-exploring-an-alternative-to-x-rays-for-special-needs-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}