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Dr. Yoonah Danskin, DDS
Best Rated Best-rated Periodontist

Dr. Yoonah Danskin specializes in Periodontics and Implant Surgery. She is a board certified periodontist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. 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.

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.

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.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her two children and husband.

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