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Andrea G. Ferreira Zandona Andréa Ferreira Zandoná

Associate Professor
Director, MSD/MS Preventive Dentistry

Andréa G. Ferreira Zandoná, DDS, MSD, PhD is a tenured Associate Professor of the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at Indiana University School of Dentistry. Dr. Zandoná is originally from Curitiba, Brazil where she received her dental degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. After receiving her dental degree in 1990 she was a visiting scholar at College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Operative Dentistry. Dr. Zandoná affiliation with Indiana University School of Dentistry began in 1991 when she was accepted in the Graduate Operative Dentistry program which led to her MSD in 1994. She later (1997) completed a PhD program in Dental Sciences at Indiana University with a dissertation on "Detection of Demineralization on Occlusal Pit and Fissures". She then joined the university as Visiting Assistant Scientist and in 1998, accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at IUSD. She took a leave of absence then and returned to Brazil where she joined the faculty of Braz Cubas University School of Dentistry in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo (1998-1999), and then Tuiuti University School of Dentistry in Curitiba, Paraná (1999-2001) while she also worked in private practice. In January 2001 she returned to Indiana and resumed her activities at IUSD. Dr. Zandoná has lectured as an invited speaker throughout the country and abroad, and is involved in teaching both at the graduate and undergraduate level and is the coordinator for the Caries Risk Management Competency. She has been an active participant in the Problem Based Learning aspects of the Curriculum. She is also involved in service-learning with an exchange program for students from IU and a Brazilian Dental School. She is the Director of the Early Caries Detection and Management Research Program. She has been involved in many aspects of clinical research focusing on early caries diagnosis and has received research grants as principal investigator from the National Institutes of Health, the Delta Dental Fund and private industry. She is a core member of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System Committee. She has been a member for many years of the International Association for Dental Research, and the European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA), and the Academy of Operative Dentistry. She is the current past president (2008-2009) of the Indiana Section of the American Association of Dental Research.

 
Publications

1) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Willis GP, Kafrawy AH. The local Schwartzman phenomenon and human dentin permeability to endotoxin. J Endotoxin Res 3(4):317-321, 1996.

2) Ferreira Zandoná AGF, Kleinrichert T, Analoui M, Schemehorn BR, Eckert G, Stookey GK. Effect of fluorescent dyes on color of restorative materials. Am J Dent 10(4):203-207;1997.

3) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Analoui M, Beinswanger BB, Isaacs R, Kafrawy AH, Eckert GJ, Stookey GK. An in vitro comparison between laser fluorescence and visual examination for detection of demineralization in occlusal pit and fissures. Caries Res 32:210-218;1998.

4) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Analoui M, Schemehorn BR, Eckert GJ, Stookey GK. Laser fluorescence detection of demineralization in artificial occlusal fissures. Caries Res 32:31-40;1998.

5) Stookey GK, Jackson RD, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Analoui M. Dental caries diagnosis. Dental Clin North Am 43(4):655-677;1999.

6) Ferreira Zandoná AG. A detecção de lesões cariosas através da fluorescência. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Odontologia – Seção PR. 2(7):22; 2001.

7) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Salmória KK, Guimarães PLC, Eckert GI. An oral health survey of nursing home residents in the city of Curitiba. Revista da ABOPREV 4(2)45-53,2002

8) Ferreira Zandoná AG. Cariologia Avanços da Última Década (Cariology – Latest Developments in Portuguese). electronically available, July 26th, 2002.

9) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Zero D. Early Caries Diagnosis. 1ª Jornada Científica Online da ABOPREV, 2005
http://www.super-congresso.com.br/aboprev/paineis.php

10) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Eggertsson, H, Ando M, Katz B, Eckert GJ, Ofner S, Doi T, Kelly SA, Krushinski, Harless JD, Stookey GK, Wefel JS. A Clinical Validation Study of Early Caries Detection Methods in Deciduous Teeth. Caries Res (submitted).

11) Al-shiha S, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Eggertsson H. Effect of Experience on the Use of the ICDAS Criteria on Occlusal Surfaces: An In Vitro Examination with Histological Validation. J Oper Dent (accepted)

12) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Zero DT. Diagnostic tools for ealy caries detection. J Am Dent Assoc 2006; 137: 1675-1684

13) Stahl J, Ferreira Zandoná AG. Rationale and protocol for the treatment of non-cavitated smooth surface carious lesions. General Dent 2007 Mar-Apr;55(2):105-11

14) Jackson R, Fontana M, Toro-Arrivillaga M, Chin J, Ferreira Zandoná A, Eckert G. Relationship of health literacy to the caries experience of the caregiver and child. Pediatric Dentistry (in press)

15) Fontana M, Catt D, Sissons S, Eckert G, Ofner S Toro M, Gregrory RL, Ferreira Zandoná A, Eggertsson H, Jackson R, Chin J, Zero D. Xylitol: Effects on the Acquisition of Cariogenic Species in Infants Pediatric Dentistry (in press)

16) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Sly MM, Ekstrand KR, Eckert G. Detecção de cáries oclusais in vitro. PerioNews 2008 2(3).

17) Fontana M, Jackson R, Eckert G, Swigonski N, Chin J, Ferreira Zandoná A, Ando M, Stookey GK, Downs S, Zero DT. Longitudinal Assessment of Caries Risk Factors in Toddlers. J Dent Res (in press)

Non-Refereed

1) Analoui M, Stookey GK, Zandoná AGF. Early detection of occlusal caries: strategies and limitations. In Stookey GK (ed.): Early Detection of Dental Caries: Proceedings of the First Indiana Conference. Indiana University, 1996, pp 265-280.

2) Stookey G.K, Isaacs RL, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Ando M, Gonzalez C, Mau MS, Kelly SA, Analoui M. Clinical validation of the use of fluorescence for the early detection of dental caries;. In Feahterstone JDB, Rechmann P, Fried D and Katzir A (eds): Proceedings in Laser in Dentistry V (vol 3593). Bellingham, Wash., Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) –The International Sociaty for Optical Engineering, pp 154-157; 1999.

3) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Isaacs RL, Stookey GK. Indiana pilot clinical study of quantitative light fluorescence. In: Stookey GK (ed.) Early Detection of Dental Caries II: Proceedings of the 4th annual Indiana Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University School of Dentistry, pp 219-230; 2000.

4) Ten CateJM, Lagerweij, Wefel JS, Angmar-Månsson B, Hall AF, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Faller RV. In vitro validation studies of quantitative light fluorescence. In: Stookey GK (ed.) Early Detection of Dental Caries II: Proceedings of the 4th annual Indiana Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University School of Dentistry, pp 231-250; 2000.

5) Eggertsson H, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Ando M, Gonzalez-Cabezas C, Fontana M, Martinez-Mier EA, Chin JR, Jackson RD, Eckert GJ, Stookey GK, Zero DT: Reproducibility of in-vitro and clinical examination with QLF (quantitative light-induced fluorescence). Developing Guidelines for imaging and analyzing QLF images, and a process for training examiners. In: Stookey GK, ed. Early detection of dental caries III: proceedings of the 6th annual Indiana Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University School of Dentistry, 2003:213-228.

6) Ferreira Zandoná AG, Stookey GK, Eggertsson H, Wefel J, Katz B, Ofner S, Eckert G. Clinical validation study of QLF at Indiana. In: Stookey GK, ed. Early detection of dental caries III: proceedings of the 6th annual Indiana Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University School of Dentistry, 2003:237-253.

7) International Caries Detection and Assessment System Coordinating Committee. Criteria Manual International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS II).
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/dhsru/docs/Final%20ICDAS%20II%20criteria%20document.doc

8) International Caries Detection and Assessment System Coordinating Committee. Rationale and Evidence for the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS II).
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/dhsru/docs/Final%20ICDAS%20II%20criteria%20document.doc

9) Kano-Wilson LH, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Comer RS, Bao X, Eckert GJ, Hartanto S, Kernick J, Zeckel I. Clinical Features of Dental Caries.
http://149.166.150.11/flashphp/services/dentistry/dental_caries.swf



 
Education

Dr. Zandoná is greatly involved and interested in the teaching of cariology, specially caries detection methods to pre-doctoral and graduate students. She holds several labs with hands on opportunities for students to experience firsthand new technologies for caries detection. Additionally, she regularly mentors students conducting research projects in cariology. Dr. Zandoná is also interested in developing and integrating new teaching methods to improve the education of dental students, having developed computer aided learning tools that have been integrated to her labs.
 
Research

Dr. Zandoná research interests are mainly in the early detection of caries and their management, a research program under her direction. She is the PI of an NIH funded RO1 clinical study aiming at validation of the use of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System in combination with Quantitative Light Induced Fluorescence for early caries detection. She is also involved in several other projects on secondary caries, health literacy, risk assessment and histological validation using methodologies such as microcomputer tomography.
 
Service

Dr. Zandoná has been a mentor and health care provider in service-learning projects since 2006. She has an agreement with an University in Brazil where IUSD students work in collaboration with local students in impoverished areas and in turn dental students from Brazil visit IUSD and conduct a research in her laboratory. Along with teams of faculty members and students she actively seeks donations and major gifts for her service-learning projects.
 
Contact Information

Phone: (317) 274-3409
Fax: (317) 274-5425
Email: azandona@iupui.edu
 
Indiana University School of Dentistry
Oral Health Research Institute
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