Meet Dr. Soileau
Dr. Kristi Soileau is a Board-certified periodontist in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry in 1985, she completed post-doctoral programs in Advanced Education in General Dentistry in 1986 and Periodontics in 1988. Dr. Soileau earned a Master of Education from the University of New Orleans in 1987 and a Master of Science in Healthcare Ethics in 2017 from Creighton University.
Dr. Soileau has served as editor for the New Orleans Dental Association since 1988. She is a past-president of the New Orleans Dental Association, the Louisiana Dental Association, and the Alumni Association Board of Directors at LSUHSD, where she was voted Alumna of the Year in 2016 and is a Clinical Associate Professor for the Periodontal Postdoctoral Program. She is Secretary of the LSU Health Foundation Board, has served on the Greater New Orleans Advisory Board, is the volunteer dentist for Notre Dame Hospice, and has worked in nursing home dentistry for 33 years. She lectured on hospice oral care at the 2018 ADA meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dr. Soileau was President of the Southwest Society of Periodontists and has served on the SRACC of the American Academy of Periodontology. She is currently Secretary/Treasurer on the AAP Board of Trustees. She has also served on the Council on Ethics, Bylaws and Judicial Affairs, the Council on Dental Education and Licensure for the American Dental Association from 2016-2020, and on the ADA House of Delegates for the past 10 years. Dr. Soileau is a Deputy Regent of the International College of Dentists, a member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and the Area 6 Regent for the American College of Dentists. She is also a member of the Louisiana Museum Foundation.
Dr. Soileau's lectures and presentations include:
- Lectured multiple times at nursing homes regarding the geriatric patient dental and oral health for in-service purposes (1985-present)
- "Dental consequences of hyperbilirubinemia in one child," presented at a confluence of residents, Manhattan, Kansas (1986)
- Lectures on surgery, maintenance, etc. presented to hygienists and dentists in New Orleans, LA as a community service (1988-present)
- "Variations in esthetic gingival surgical techniques" (2000-present)
- "Differences in the clinical probing depths following the use of a polyglycolic acid/trimethylene carbonate regenerative membrane" Zuers, Austria (2004)
- "Oral post-surgical complications following the administration of bisphosphonates given for asteopenia related to malignancy: a case report" Bay St. Louis, MS (2005)
- Grand Rounds at Memorial Medical Center "Oral post-surgical complications following the administration of bisphosphonates given for osteopenia related to malignancy: a case report" (June 2005)
- "A histologic evaluation of various stages of palatal healing following subepithelial connective tissue grafting procedures: comparison of eight cases" San Moritz, Switzerland (2006)
- "A review of regenerative periodontics," New Orleans Dental Association Conference (2006)
Dr. Soileau's research includes:
- Participant in the project "Toxicity levels in cements on gingival tissues, " LSUDS (1983-1984)
- Primary investigator for, "An in-vitro comparison of gingival epithelial cell attachment to commercial dental implants," Journal of Periodontal and Restorative Dentistry (1986-1988)
- Co-evaluate of dental radiographs in children for, "Prevalence of oral disease in an adolescent population," Bogalusa, Louisiana (1987)
- "Evaluation of increasing the zone of attached keratinized gingiva with frozen subepithelial connective tissue grafts: a report of 5 cases," Journal of Periodontology (2002)
- "Differences in clinical probing depths following the use of a polyglycolic acid/trimethylene carbonate regenerative membrane" (2003)
- "Treatment of a mucogingival defect associated with intraoral piercing," JADA (2005)
- "Oral post-surgical complications following the administration of bisphosphonates given for osteopenia related to malignancy: a case report," Journal of Periodontology (2005)
- "A histologic evaluation of various stages of palatal healing following subepithelial connective tissue grafting procedures: a comparison of eight cases," Journal of Periodontology (2006)
- "Primary Care: Ethical Considerations in Dentistry," ADA Annual Sessions (2018)
- "Reopening, Risks, Responsibilities and Re-Evaluation," ADA Webinar (2020)
- "How important is RDA value on dentin abrasivity?" (2023)
- "A literature review of periodontal therapies studied over the last two years" (2023)