PhD candidate - Visiting Scholar
East Carolina University
University of Campinas
Camila Crescente, DDS, MS, is a specialist in Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry and a PhD candidate in Health Sciences at São Francisco University (USF, Brazil), she is currently a visiting scholar at East Carolina University (ECU, USA). She earned her DDS from USF (2016) and holds a Master’s degree in Dentistry with an emphasis on Pediatric Dentistry from the University of Campinas (FOP-Unicamp, Brazil, 2021). She completed a Multiprofessional Residency in Craniofacial Syndromes and Anomalies at the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies, University of São Paulo (HRAC-USP, Brazil, 2019), and is a specialist in Public and Family Health (HRAC-USP, 2019) and Pediatric Dentistry (APCD, 2024). My research interests focus on maternal and infant oral health, particularly the prevention and early detection of early childhood caries in babies and the impact of maternal factors on pediatric oral health outcomes.