Dr Valeria Marinho

Non Clinical Senior Lecturer

Biography

Valeria Marinho joined the Centre for Adult Oral Health at QMUL in April 2005. Previously she has worked at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (UCL) as a lecturer, and for both the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine (King's College London) and the Oral Health Specialist Library (National Library for Health – NHS), following a training fellowship and Diploma in Systematic Reviews Methodology at the Institute of Child Health (UCL) in 1998. She obtained her MSc in Dental Public Health in 1993, and her PhD in 2003, both from University College London. As part of her PhD, she has conducted and published a series of systematic reviews on topical fluorides for caries prevention, of impact on national and international level.

Valeria is an editor of the Cochrane Oral Health Group, chair of the selection panel committee for The Cochrane Collaboration Aubrey Sheiham Public Health and Primary Care Scholarship, and a member of the Cochrane RevMan Advisory Group (RAG). She is also an editorial board member for BMC Oral Health, and acts as a commentator for the Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal.

Valeria lectures both nationally and internationally on systematic reviews, evidence-based effectiveness of fluorides and evidence-based practice, and she teaches postgraduate and undergraduate students in these areas.

Publications:

Key Publications

Marinho VC, Richards D, Niederman R. Variation, certainty, evidence, and change in dental education: employing evidence-based dentistry in dental education. J Dent Educ, 65(5):449-55, May 2001.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Fluoride varnishes for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002;(3):CD002279.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, and Sheiham A. Systematic review of controlled trials on the effectiveness of fluoride gels for the prevention of dental caries in children. J.Dent.Educ, 67(4):448-58, April 2003.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Sheiham A, Logan S. Fluoride toothpastes for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(1):CD002278.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Topical fluoride (toothpastes, mouthrinses, gels or varnishes) for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(4):CD002782.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Fluoride mouthrinses for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(3):CD002284.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Sheiham A, Logan S. One topical fluoride (toothpastes, or mouthrinses, or gels, or varnishes) versus another for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(1):CD002780.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Sheiham A, Logan S. Combinations of topical fluoride (toothpastes, mouthrinses, gels, varnishes) versus single topical fluoride for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(1):CD002781.

Watt RG, Marinho VC. Does oral health promotion improve oral hygiene and gingival health? Periodontol 2000. 2005;37:35-47.

Hughes FJ, Syed M, Koshy B, Marinho V, Bostanci N, Mckay IJ, Curtis MA, Croucher RE, Marcenes W. Prognostic factors in the treatment of generalized aggressive periodontitis: I. Clinical features and initial outcome. J Clin Periodontol. Sept 2006; 33(9):663-70.

Publications Since 2001

Salanti G, Marinho V, Higgins JPT. Multiple-treatments meta-analysis requires careful assessment of assumptions: a case study of the relative effects of topical fluoride therapies for the prevention of dental caries. J Clin Epidemiol (In press, accepted January 2008).

Marinho VC. Evidence-based Effectiveness of Topical Fluorides. Adv Dent Res (In press, accepted May 2007).

Needleman I, Worthington H, Fernandez-Gonzalez L, Brunton P, Clarkson J, Coulthard P, Esposito M, Glenny AM, Hooper L, Marinho V, Moles D, Shaw W; Cochrane Oral Health Group Editorial Team. High quality, less bias. Br Dent J. Nov 2007. 24;203(10):561.

Gillespie GM, Marinho VCC, Marthaler TM, Holt R, Poulsen S, Stephen K, Baez R. Salt fluoridation for preventing dental caries.(Protocol) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007;(4):CD006846.

Hughes FJ, Syed M, Koshy B, Marinho V, Bostanci N, Mckay IJ, Curtis MA, Croucher RE, Marcenes W. Prognostic factors in the treatment of generalized aggressive periodontitis: I. Clinical features and initial outcome.  J Clin Periodontol. Sept 2006;33(9):663-70.

Marinho V. Substantial caries-inhibiting effect of fluoride varnish suggested. Evid Based Dent. 2006;7(1):9-10.
      
Watt RG, Marinho VC. Does oral health promotion improve oral hygiene and gingival health? Periodontol 2000. 2005;37:35-47.
   
Marinho V. Fluoride gel inhibits caries in children who have low caries-risk but this may not be clinically relevant. Evid Based Dent. 2004;5(4):95.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Sheiham A, Logan S. Combinations of topical fluoride (toothpastes, mouthrinses, gels, varnishes) versus single topical fluoride for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(1):CD002781.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Sheiham A, Logan S. One topical fluoride (toothpastes, or mouthrinses, or gels, or varnishes) versus another for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(1):CD002780.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Topical fluoride (toothpastes, mouthrinses, gels or varnishes) for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(4):CD002782.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Fluoride mouthrinses for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(3):CD002284.

Marinho VC. Systematic reviews of controlled trials in general and oral health care. Braz J Oral Sci. April/June 2003;2(5):215-26.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, and Sheiham A. Systematic review of controlled trials on the effectiveness of fluoride gels for the prevention of dental caries in children. J.Dent.Educ. April 2003;67(4):448-58.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Sheiham A, Logan S. Fluoride toothpastes for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(1):CD002278.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Fluoride varnishes for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002;(3):CD002279.

Marinho VC, Higgins JP, Logan S, Sheiham A. Fluoride gels for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002;(2):CD002280.

Marinho VC, Richards D, Niederman R. Variation, certainty, evidence, and change in dental education: employing evidence-based dentistry in dental education. J Dent Educ. May 2001;65(5):449-55.

Research interests:

Valeria is the lead review author of a series of Cochrane systematic reviews on topical fluorides for caries prevention, which are now in the process of being updated. In this area, she is also involved in the production and publication of new systematic reviews in a collaborative work with the Cochrane Oral Heath Group.

Her main research interests are in evidence synthesis, systematic reviews methodology, information retrieval and critical appraisal of research, with particular applications in dental health, public health, and evidence based health care. In these areas, she has published several peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and, with postgraduate students in the Centre, she is responsible for supervising several projects.