Dr. Luiz Andre Freire Pimenta, DDS

Luiz A. Pimenta, DDS, MS, PhD
Web site
https://www.dentistry.unc.edu/secure/resources/directories/detail.cfm?employeeid=5730
Email
[email protected]
Brief Bio
Dr. Luiz A. Pimenta is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Dental Ecology. He comes to UNC from the School of Dentistry at Piracicaba  State University of Campinas (Unicamp)  Sao Paulo Brazil, where he was Full Professor at the Department of Restorative Dentistry from 1992 until 2006. He received a DDS degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG), a MS degree from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Bauru, Brazil and his PhD from the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil. Dr. Pimenta also is Certificate in Restorative Dentistry and practiced full-time with emphasis in preventive, restorative, and esthetic dentistry. He has been mentor of 18 MS students and 13 PhD students in Cariology and Restorative Dentistry Graduate Programs. He serves as Course Director in the …Prevention course DDS Program at UNC and teaches several didactic and clinical courses for DDS and MS students at UNC. Dr. Pimenta has presented many lectures and continuing education courses regionally, nationally, and internationally and he has published over 50 scientific articles and 90 abstracts, and has co-written 3 textbook chapters. He maintains a part-time intramural practice (Dental Faculty Practice) in the Craniofacial Group at UNC devoted to treatelderly and adults with high caries-risk patients, restorative and esthetic dentistry and also implant supported prostheses.
Areas of Interest in Aging
Treatment of Caries in elderly; Prevention and treatment of root caries; Treatment of patients with Sjogren's Syndrome; Implant supported prostheses
Aging Affiliations at UNCCH
Department of Dental Ecology (School of Dentistry)
Clinical Professor
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