Born –1947, Jerusalem, Israel
Degree - D.M.D., Hebrew University - 1972
Board certified in O.M.F.S. since - 1976
Academic degree
1978 Lecturer
1984 Senior Lecturer
1994 Associate Professor
2004 Professor
Telephone – +972 – 2 - 6776165
E-mail – dorrit@cc.huji.ac.il
Academic education
1965-1972: Dentistry, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine.
1972: DMD Thesis. The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Department of Oral Biology, Prof. Dishon.
1972-75, 1978-79: Resident, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine.
1975-1976: Research Associate at the Anaerobic Laboratory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia (as part of residency).
1976-1978: Research Associate at the Department of Periodontology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, and at the Forsyth Dental Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Attendant at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts .
1981-1982: Research Associate at the Immunological Diagnostics and Research Center, University of Toronto, Canada. Attendant at the Department of Oral Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital and at the Department of Plastic Surgery, Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Other appointements
1987-1988: Visiting Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
1999: Visiting Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Columbia University, New York, New York.
2000: Visiting Professor, Institute of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Darwad College, Darwad, India.
2011: Visiting Professor, Oral & Maxillofacial Department "Sapienza" Hospital , University of Rome. Italy
Lectures & hands on courses on TMJ function and dysfunction ( 2010-11)
Jan 2010: TMJ course, Hands on cadaver dissection course Paris.
May 2010: Master class, Oral & Maxillofacial Department "Sapienza" Hospital , University of Rome Rome.
June 2010: Invited lecture, Spiessl Symposium, TMJ Workshop, Basel.
Sept 2010: Invited lecturer: 2010 AAOMS, Chicago (Cancelled).
Oct 2010: SORG TMJ Course, Hands on cadaver dissection course, Vienna.
Oct 2010: Invited lecturer, 1st congress of Hellenic, Israeli and Turkish Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Turkey.
April 2011: Invited lecture: The pathogenesis of Internal Derangement in light of the seemingly contradictory features of the TMJ. The European & American Associations of Oral & Maxillfacial Surgeons, Rome.
June 2011: Invited Lectures: "Coping with loss of condylar vertical height" Spiessl Symposium. TMJ Workshop, Basel.
Sept 2011: Invited lecture. LatinoAmerican Association of OMFS. Brazil
Oct 2011: Invited lecture Turkish association of OMFS, Antalia
Oct 2011: Invited lecture for SORG TMJ Course, Hands on cadaver dissection course, Vienna.
Nov 2011: Invited lecture IAMFS, Chile. TMJ Condylar Hyperplasia Clinical findings, Treatment, Pathogenesis & animal model.
Nov 2011: Invited lectures for TMJ Course, Hands on cadaver dissection course, Paris.
Research interests
TMJ Osteoarthritis
· Pathogenesis ( Including two new animal model of osteoarthritis that clarify the pathogenesis)
· The efficiency of arthrocentesis : Long term results
· New liposomes act as effective Biolubricants for friction reduction in human synovial joints
TMJ Condylar Hyperplasia
· The impact of high condylectomy only on facial symmetry in 75 cases with TMJ condylar hyperplasia.
· The role of Vasculoendothelial Growth Factor in the pathogenesis of TMJ Condylar Hyperplasia.
· An animal model of TMJ condylar hyperplasia using transgenic mouse model which allows the modulation of VEGF expression in the condyle
· Studying the reversibility of the phenotype effect of VEGF following it’s removal in the post natal mouse condyle via a conditional over expression
TMJ Ankylosis
· Preserving the condyle keeps the growth potential and provides better function.
· An alternative way to cope with surgical loss of TMJ condylar vertical height resulting normal function and normal occlusion
· The contribution of 3D documentation of the TMJ on the diagnosis, type and duration of the surgical intervention
Patent
Biolubricants for Friction Reduction in human Synovial joints
Recent publications (since 2003)
1. Eliav, E. Teich, S., Nitzan, D.W., Abid El Raziq, D., Nahlieli, O., Gracely, R.H. Benoliel R.: Facial arthralgia and myalgia: (2003) Can they be differentiated by trigeminal sensory assessment? Pain 104(3):481-490.
2. Nitzan, D.W. (2003): The role of “adhesive force” and “friction” in TMJ internal derangement. Cells,Tissues,Organs, 174(1): 6-16.
4. Burla, Z., Ofer, T. , Russo, A. Samuni, R. Nitzan, D.W. (2003): Do stable nitroxide radicals catalyze or inhibit the degradation of hyaluronic acid? Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 35(2)169-78.
5. Nitzan, D.W., Kriener, B. and Zeltser, R. (2004): TMJ lubrication system: Its effect on the joint function, dysfunction and treatment approach. Compendium 25(6) 437-448
6. Nitzan DW (2005): TMJ dysfunction: from basic research and back to the clinical application. J Oral Rehab.
7. Nitzan DW (2006): Arthrocentesis - incentives for using this minimal invasive approach for temporomandibular disorders. Oral and Maxillofac Surgery Clinics North America. 18,3:311-328.
8. Nitzan DW., Katsnelson A., Baranis, I., Brin I. Casap N: (2008): The clinical characteristics of condylar hyperplasia: experience with sixty-one patients. J Oral & maxillofac Surg. 66:2: 312-18.
9. Amir G., Goldfarb A, Nyska M, Redlich M, Nyska A, Nitzan DW: (2009): 2-Butoxyethanol model of haemolysis and disseminated thrombosis in female rats: a preliminary study of the vascular mechanism of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joint. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 22: 1532-1940 (Electronic).
10. Sivan S. Schroeder A. Verberne G. Merkher Y., Diminsky D., Priev A., Maroudas A., Halperin G., Nitzan DW.,, Etsion I., Barenholz Y: (2009): Liposomes Act as Effective Biolubricants for Friction Reduction in Human Synovial. Joints. Langmuir: Articles 26:2: 1107-1116.
11. Zadik Y., Yitschaky O. & NeumanT. Nitzan DW: (2011): On the self-resolution nature of the buccal bifurcation cyst (Accepted J Oral Maxillofac Surg)
12. Monje F., Nitzan DW.& González-Garcia R: (2011): Temporomandibular Joint Arthrocenthesis : Review of the literature. The J Oral Med and Buc Surg.
13. Zadik Y., Aktas A., Scott Z., Drucker k, Nitzan DW: (2011): Aneurysmal bone cyst of mandibular condyle: A case report and review of the Literature. Accepted J Cranio maxillo facial Surgery
14. Zadik Y., Nitzan DW: ( 2011): Osteomalacia induced by oral tumor: a forgotten paraneoplastic syndrome. Oral Oncology,
Citations
· h-index at the ISI Web of Knowledge – 18
· Total number of citations of the 18 most cited papers - 750
· Total number of citations – 978