Professor & CROHA Director, Claude D. Pepper Center
- Phone: (352) 273-6721
- Email: mwheft@ufl.edu
Education
- D.M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1974
- M.A., American University
- Ph.D., American University, 1982
Main Interests
My research interests are in gerontology, sensory aging, geriatric dentistry (oral health in aging, see Website for the Florida Dental Care Study), and pain, more specifically, assessment of pain in humans.
Recent Publications
- Patient-Centered Dentinal Hypersensitivity Treatment Outcomes: Results from the National Dental PBRN.
Heft MW, Litaker MS, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Meyerowitz C, Chonowski S, Yardic RL, Gordan VV, Mungia R, Gilbert GH; National Dental PBRN Collaborative Group. JDR Clin Trans Res. 2018 Jan;3(1):76-82. doi: 10.1177/2380084417742099. Epub 2017 Nov 13. - Illness perceptions amongst individuals with dental caries.
Mafla AC, Villalobos-Galvis FH, Heft MW. Community Dent Health. 2018 Mar 1;35(1):16-22. doi: 10.1922/CDH_4098Mafla07. - Management of dentin hypersensitivity by practitioners in The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.
Kopycka-Kedzierawski, D.T., Meyerowitz, C., Litaker, M.S., Heft, M.W., Tasgaonkar, N., Day, M.R., Porter-Williams, A., Gordan, V.V., Yardic, R.L., Lawhorn, T.M., Gilbert, G.H., National Dental PBRN Collaborative Group. JADA, 148(10) (2017), 728-736, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2017.05.003 - Ivar A. Mjör, 1933-2017.
Glantz PJ, Heft MW. J Dent Res. 2017 May;96(5):485-486. doi: 10.1177/0022034517698125. Epub 2017 Mar 10. - Somatosensory function in old age.
Heft MW, Robinson ME. J Oral Rehabil. 2017 Apr;44(4):327-332. doi: 10.1111/joor.12488. Epub 2017 Feb 17. Review. - Management of Dentin Hypersensitivity by National Dental Practice-Based Research Network practitioners: results from a questionnaire administered prior to initiation of a clinical study on this topic.
Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Meyerowitz C, Litaker MS, Chonowski S, Heft MW, Gordan VV, Yardic RL, Madden TE, Reyes SC, Gilbert GH; National Dental PBRN Collaborative Group. BMC Oral Health. 2017 Jan 13;17(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s12903-017-0334-0.
Recent Books/Monographs/Chapters
- Heft, M.W. & Robinson, M.E. (In press). The challenge of measuring pain in humans. In L.L. Sievert & D.E. Brown (Eds), Biological measures of human experience across the lifespan: making visible the invisible.
Springer , Cham, Switzerland, 2016, pp. 105-115.