Member Directory

Abbigale D. White, RDH, BS, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of Dentistry. She works for a general dentistry practice in Lubbock, Texas.

Ruth Aponte-Wesson, DDS, MS, FACP, is a prosthodontist and maxillofacial prosthodontist, and serves as an associate professor in the Section of Oral Oncology and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Melanie E. Patterson, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of Dentistry in Dallas. She works for a general dentistry practice in Grapevine, Texas. Patterson can be reached at melanie.patterson89@yahoo.com.

Akanksha Srivastava, BDS, MSc, MDSc, FACP, FRCD(C), is dual board certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics and Royal College of Dentists of Canada. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry, and practices as a prosthodontist and implantologist in Houston. She can be reached at akanksha.srivastava@mail.mcgill.ca.

Sarah Gianetti, RDH, BS, is a dental hygienist practicing in Massachusetts, where she also serves as adjunct faculty in the dental hygiene program at Regis College School of Health Sciences in Weston. She is a candidate in the Masters of Dental Hygiene program at Idaho State University in Pocatello. Gianetti can be reached sarahgianetti@isu.edu..

Martha G. Brackett, DDS, is a professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Kevin Shepherd, DMD, is an advanced education in general dentistry resident at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Ankur Gupta, BDS, MDS, is in private practice limited to orthodontics in New Delhi, India.

Justin J. Villanueva, DMD, MSD, DHL, is in private practice limited to periodontics and dental implants in Lafayette, Indiana. He also holds an adjunct clinical faculty appointment in the Department of Periodontology at Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis.