Adriana Manso DDS, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Division of Restorative Dentistry, UBC Research Excellence Cluster Lead, Advancing Multifunctional Dental Biomaterials (AMDB)
Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry
Background:
Dr. Manso completed her PhD in Dental Biomaterials at the University of São Paulo with a focus on strategies to optimize the durability of dental adhesive interfaces. As a clinician-scientist, she is interested in the mechanisms involved in degradation processes happening at the resin-dentin interface while transferring the knowledge to improve direct and indirect dental restorations, adhesive systems, resin cements, and resin composites. Adriana’s research program at UBC is mainly focused on the development of materials with strong and long-lasting antimicrobial properties for targeted dental applications, particularly focused on the highly prevalent oral disease, dental caries, mainly occurring on hard dental tissues at dental-material interfaces. More recently, her research efforts have been directed at pursuing the inclusion of photosensitive compounds and/or nanoparticles into dental materials such as varnishes, hydrogels, and resin-based restoratives for use with an antimicrobial photodynamic therapy-based approach to manage cariogenic biofilms.
Research Interests:
- Dental adhesion and interfaces
- Functional photosensitive dental materials
- Development of antimicrobial materials
- Stability of dentin-resin interfaces