Rawa Alammari is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Oral Sciences. She completed her Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree and Master of Health Informatics at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She completed her certificate in Operative Dentistry and Master of Oral Science from the University of Iowa. Her research area is dental biomaterials with the focus on the effects of tooth whitening on dental hard tissue and the prevention of potential side effects.