Degree in Medicine (1985) and Medical Dentistry (1989) from University of Porto
Master in Clinical and Social Gerontology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1998)
Postgraduate in Operative Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Implantology
Teacher and regent of Operative Dentistry and Clinical Restorative Dentistry at the ISCS-Norte since 1992 and Cariology of the Oral Hygiene Course at IPSN since 2010.
Co-author of articles in international peer-reviewed journals in the area of Salivary Proteomics and Dental Caries.
Co-author of the books: “Proteomics of human body fluids: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Part II, Humana Press; “Atlas of Pathology of the Oral Mucosa, “Notes of Oral Medicine” – Tomos I and II.
Summary of the presentation
Today, tooth decay should be treated as a chronic disease that expresses itself in a predominantly pathologic oral environment, rather than just by the sporadic reconstruction of an isolated tooth, because the carious process depends on the interplay between protective and pathological factors of the salivary biofilm and as well on the balance between non-cariogenic and cariogenic microbial populations resident in saliva and oral cavity.
A deep and widely integrated knowledge of the various branches of the knowing is the basis of clinical cariology and allows long-term therapeutic programs influenced by factors such as size, depth, activity caries lesion, age and kind of patient caries risk.