Dr. Yoonah Danskin
Board Certified Periodontist
Dr. Yoonah Danskin is a board certified periodontist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. She specializes in Periodontics (gums and bone structures that supports teeth) and Implant Surgery in Manhattan. She aims to create a stable foundation for a beautiful and healthy smile and believes in personalized treatment plans that are tailored to individual needs. Her team takes great pride in delivering quality care that is long lasting and precise.
She practices all aspects of periodontal therapy including treatment of periodontal disease, laser therapy, precise implant placement, extraction, and bone regeneration. She performs aesthetic procedures including treatment of recession, gummy smiles, and full mouth rehabilitation. She also specializes in dental management of oncology patients, and performs biopsies.
Dr. Danskin was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in New York City. She attended Bronx High School of Science and received her Bachelor’s in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. She received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery from UCLA and completed a General Practice Residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital. She also completed a Dental Oncology Fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
She completed a Residency in Periodontology and Surgical Implantology at the New York branch of the Veteran Affairs Hospital in concert with New York University. She graduated with the Dennis Tarnow Clinical Excellence Award and the Northeastern Society of Periodontists Case Report Award. She is currently a member of the American Academy of Periodontology.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her two children and husband.
TRAINING
OFFICES
Clear Dentistry
Wednesdays, Fridays
30 Central Park South
Suites 2D
New York, NY 10019
(646) 454-0359
REVIEWS
PUBLICATIONS
Danskin, Yoonah., Reisig, Jessie., Duplinsky, Thomas. (2021) Challenges in Dental Surgery and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery in Patients with Anatomic Anomalies. Surgical and Perioperative Management
of Patients with Anatomic Anomalies
Danskin, Y, Chu, S, Simmonds, T. Minimally invasive tunneling of a De-epithelialized connective tissue graft to improve gingival phenotype of lingual recession defects, a Case Report. Clin Adv Periodontics. 2022
Elchaar E, Farahani S, Danskin Y. (2023) Applications of digital technology in dental surgery—an overview
Danskin Y, Alhajji D, Singh A, Rota A, Huryn JM, Estilo CL. Multiple myeloma masquerading as mandibular medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: a case report. Aust Dent J. 2022 Mar;67(1):94-99.
Dalal Alhajji, Yoon Ah Danskin, Bridget O’hara, Karl Armand Solano, Jessica Flynn, Elyn Riedel, Sae Hee Kim Yom, Cherry Estilo. (2020) Spontaneous osteoradionecrosis—features and characteristics: the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center experience
SELECTED SKILLS
- Periodontal therapy laser assisted deep cleaning, osseous surgery, guided tissue regeneration, peri-implantitis treatment
- Implant dentistry, extraction, immediate implant placement, socket preservation, ridge augmentation, crestal and lateral sinus lift. BioHorizon, Straumann, Biomet 3i, and Nobel systems.
- Aesthetic procedures aesthetic crown lengthening, soft tissue augmentation for treatment of recession defects, anterior implant placement and provisionalization
- Restorative support functional crown lengthening, gingivectomy,
- Full-arch dental implants All-on-X. Same day smile. Complete full mouth smile restoration. Digitally guided for precision.
- Biopsy soft & hard tissue biopsy and Histological analysis
- Dental Oncology Dental management of head and neck cancer patients, medication related osteonecrosis of the jaw, osteoradionecrosis. Dental management of medically compromised patients in the operating room.
LINKS
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Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/yoonah-danskin
RECOGNITIONS
Awards
- 2022 Dennis Tarnow Award for Clinical Excellence
- 2022 NESP Clinical Case Report Award
- 2019 American Academy of Oral Medicine Case Report Award
- 2016, 2015 UCLA Dean’s Sherwin Rosen Scholarship
- 2016, NIH/NIDCR funded UCLA School of Dentistry R25 Academic Track
- 2015 IADR/AADR National Student Research Group Local Newsletter Award
- 2014 UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute TL1 Translational Science Summer Fellowship
- 2014 UCLA Clinic Day Research Poster Competition 2014 UCLA Board of Counselors Endowed Scholarship & Webb Family Endowed Scholarship
Presentations
- Yoonah Danskin. Applications of Spontaneous In-Situ Gingival Augmentation, Tri-School Meeting, Boston, March 2022
- Yoonah Danskin, Daniel Bernstein, Trevor Simmonds. Using Periosteal Vertical Mattress Suture for Guided Bone Regeneration in Wide Span Edentulous Space, American Academy of Periodontology Annual Meeting, Miami, November 2021
- Daniel Bernstein, Yoonah Danskin. Stackable Bone Level Guide – A case series, Robert Schoor Memorial Northeast Implant Symposium Oral Presentation, Oct 2021
- Arthur Bigsby, Yoonah Danskin. Conventional vs. Fully Guided in Full Arch Immediate Provisionalization, Metropolitan Tri-school Oral Presentation, March 2021
- Yoonah Danskin, Dalal Alhaji, Cherry Estilo. Multiple Myeloma masquerading as Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ): A Case Study, AAOM Poster, New Orleans, 2019
- 10 poster presentations on public health topics as a UCLA pre-doctorate at IADR, AADR, and ASDA