Associate Professor Leticia Algarves Miranda

Associate Professor Leticia Algarves Miranda has more than 15 years’ experience in clinical periodontology as a private specialist. She has also taught periodontology and foundational sciences (immunology, histology, embryology) to dental, medical and other health-related professions students at Pontifical Catholic University, Santa Cruz University and Sao Leopoldo Mandic University. She is now the Discipline Lead of Periodontics at UWA and teaches in the Doctor of Dental Medicine and Doctor of Clinical Dentistry courses at UWA.

Associate Professor Algarves Miranda gained her undergraduate dental degree at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1995. While practising in a private setting, she undertook a specialty course in periodontology and a master’s in dental clinics with a focus on periodontology. She then completed her PhD in Periodontology at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil, in 2003 and a PhD in Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, in 2007.

Her research interests include unravelling the mechanisms involved in the susceptibility to, and in the tissue destruction mechanisms of, periodontitis and peri-implantitis, and in healing enhancement of periodontal therapy. She also wishes to establish connections of oral health with general health and with other tissue-destructive chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome and osteoporosis, among others.