Address
Room: 145AC
UNMC College of Dentistry
40th and Holdrege
Box 830740
Lincoln, NE 68583-0740

Adult Restorative Dentistry Department

Telephone: (402) 472-1262
Fax: (402) 472-5290
Email: rtoothaker@unmc.edu  

Education:

• 1980 B.S., Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK
• 1981 D.D.S., University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry; Oklahoma, City, OK
• 1982 General Practice Residency Certificate, Reynolds Army Hospital, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
• 1990 Fixed Prosthodontics Certificate, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas
• 1991 Board Certification in Prosthodontics

• Director of the Prosthodontics Section
• Course Director, Clinical Removable Prosthodontics
• Course Director, Advanced Topics in Prosthodontics
• Course Faculty, Removable Prosthodontics I (CD)
• Course Faculty, Removable Prosthodontics II (RPD)

• January 2005: $227,459, from the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation of New York, New York, in coordination with the UNL Department of Anthropology and the Nebraska Foundation, for the implant treatment of 20 Sudanese refugees in the State of Nebraska who have mandibular anterior partial edentulism due to previous forcible, ritual extraction as children in their native country. This project also represents a collaborative effort with the Department of Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico Highlands University, the Department of Linguistics of the University of Texas at Arlington and the Central District Health Department in Grand Island, Nebraska.
• May 2003: Over $15,000 in components and training support received from Straumann/ITI implants for startup of patient implant care at the Veteran’s Affairs Dental Clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska (requested and received in conjunction with the efforts of Dr. Dan Assad and Dr. Edward Greene). This action also supported the College of Dentistry’s Postgraduate Periodontal Residents.
• September 2002: Over $14,000 in components and services (along with additional private donations of funds) received from the Nebraska Chapter of the International College of Dentists, NobelBiocare, USA and Dental Designs, Inc Laboratory for support of the college’s dental treatment of Sudanese refugees in Nebraska with endosseous implant therapy. This project also received a great deal of publicity for the dental college on 3 television programs, National Public Radio, Nebraska Public Radio, and numerous national and international newspapers and magazines, including the front page of the US, Asian and European editions of the Wall Street Journal. This project and the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry were again featured in an article appearing in the May 2004 issue of Dental Practice Report.
• Oct 2005-Jan 2011 Member of multi disciplinary team of investigators which was awarded 5-year NIH Grant of $1,300,000 (NIH Grant # NGA 1R25RR022707-01), a Science Education Partnership (SEPA) Award by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health. The grant project is entitled Breaking Barriers: Health Science Education in Native American Communities. Only two institutions were awarded this type of funding in 2005 - Harvard University, and the University of Nebraska. As part of this project, I am also on an Advisory Board which meets with the leaders of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairman’s Health Board, covering four States, to target Native American students in grades K-8.

• Toothaker, R., Ashcraft, D., Soultanis, I., Chang, M. A custom-fabricated device for chairside organization of multiple implant components. J Prosthodont 2003;12:143-145
• Chang, M.W., Toothaker R.W. Dental education: Meeting the demands of implant dentistry. Korean Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Implantology 2003; 7(3): 30-36
• Toothaker, R, Soultanis, I, Ojha, A, Ashcraft-Olmscheid, D., Chang, M Retrofitting an existing implant overdenture to a new and redesigned intraoral framework: A clinical report. J Prosthodont 2004;13;47-51 (Fig 6 from this article was the cover photo of this specific journal issue). This article also chosen by Procter & Gamble, Inc. and The American College of Prosthodontists in the Fall of 2004 as an on-line, continuing education credit, article.
• Williamson, R., Williamson, A., Bowley, J., Toothaker, R. Maximizing mandibular prosthesis stability utilizing linear (noninterceptive) occlusion, occlusal plane selection and centric recording. J Prosthodont 2004;13:55-61
• de Sa e Frias, V., Toothaker, R., Wright R. The shortened dental arch - a review of current treatment concepts. J Prosthodont 2004;13(2):104-11)
• Willis, M., Schacht, R., Toothaker, R. Observations of Dinka and Nuer refugees in the United States with anterior dental extractions. Submitted to Special Care in Dentistry, September 2004. (Spec Care Dent) Manuscript #975
• St. Germain, H., Nelson, J., Brackett, W., Toothaker, R. Microleakage of laboratory processed, resin composite inlay restorations. (Abstract No. 3393 at IADR annual meeting March 2002)
• Mastering Adhesive and Esthetic Dentistry, Study Guide #158, copyright 2002 GPN (Great Plains National) published and distributed by Clinical Topics in Dentistry (GPN, P.O. Box 80669 Lincoln, Nebraska 68501 - a service agency of the Nebraska ETV Network).
• Chang, M.W., Toothaker R.W. Dental education: Meeting the demands of implant dentistry. Korean Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Implantology 2003; 7(3): 30-36
• Willis, M., Schacht, R., Toothaker, R. Observations of Dinka and Nuer refugees in the United States with anterior dental extractions. Spec Care Dentist 25(4): 193-198, 2005
• Barnes, C, Toothaker, R., Ross, J. Polishing dental implants and dental implant restorations. J Pract Hyg 15(1): 28-29, 2006.
• Authored Book Chapters Willis, M., Swindler, D, Toothaker, R. A Description of Nuer and Dinka Anterior Tooth Extractions, Practices, and a Preliminary Odontometric Analysis of the Remaining Permanent Dentition, in Current Trends in Dental Morphology Research. April 2006

• Clinical Consultant, Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Lincoln, NE
• Editorial Board, the Journal of Prosthodontics
• Editorial Board, the Quintessence of Dental Technology (QDT)
• One of only 6 Prosthodontists in the US invited to participate in the scientific Review Group meeting organized by the National Institute of Health, to review grant applications. May 2006