Profile
Gustavo obtained his Ph.D. in Oral Epidemiology from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, with one year at the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2016, Gustavo became an assistant professor at the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University in Denmark, where he became an associate professor.
Gustavo served as the vice-president of the Danish Society for Periodontology (2017-2021) and was a speaker at the EuroPerio 10 (Copenhagen). He has published over 120 scientific articles and is a board member for several scientific journals, including Journal of Dental Research, Scientific Reports (published by Nature) and Helyion (published by Cell).
Gustavo has been the recipient of several prizes, including the IADR Centennial Emerging Leader Award, given by the International Association for Dental Research, the Bagger-Sørensen Young Investigator Award (Denmark), and the CAPES Thesis Award, presented by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, for his outstanding doctoral thesis. In 2020 and 2021, Gustavo was recognized among the top 2% Scientists Worldwide in a Stanford University study. According to the Expertscape database, Gustavo is among the top 10 researchers with expertise in periodontitis.
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Principal
Investigator, National Dental Centre Singapore;
- Associate Professor, Oral Health ACP, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore;
- Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Dentistry, Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil.
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Research Interests
Gustavo's research comprises the association between oral and systemic diseases, as well as methodological aspects of oral and dental research. His research has paved the way for a broader understanding of periodontitis as a non-communicable disease resulting from exposure to detrimental health behaviors over the life course. Additionally, Gustavo has been interested in the role of oral inflammation in the senses of smell and taste and, ultimately, food preferences. Gustavo has joined the NDRIS and Duke-NUS Medical School, willing to apply cutting-edge analytical approaches to investigate the relationship between oral and systemic diseases among Singaporeans using available health registries.
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Publications
- Leite FRM, López R, Pajaniaye JB, Nascimento GG. Effect of Smoking Exposure on Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy: 1-Year Follow-up. J Dent Res. 2023;102(3):280-286.
- Leite FRM, López R, Møller HJ, Nascimento GG. Salivary cytokine expression after non-surgical periodontal therapy in smokers: 12-month follow-up. J Periodontol. 2023.
- Nascimento GG, Leite FRM, Gonzalez-Chica DA, Peres KG, Peres MA. Dietary vitamin D and calcium and periodontitis: A population-based study. Front Nutr. 2022;9:1016763.
- Costa SA, Ribeiro CCC, Leite FRM, Peres MA, Souza SFC, Nascimento GG. Chronic oral diseases burden: The confluence of caries and periodontitis throughout life. J Clin Periodontol. 2022.
- Cassiano LS, Peres MA, Motta JVS, Demarco FF, Horta BL, Ribeiro CC, Nascimento GG. Periodontitis Is Associated with Consumption of Processed and Ultra-Processed Foods: Findings from a Population-Based Study. Nutrients. 2022 Sep 10;14(18):3735.
- Costa SA, Nascimento GG, Colins PMG, Alves CMC, Thomaz EBAF, Carvalho Souza SF, da Silva AAM, Ribeiro CCC. Investigating oral and systemic pathways between unhealthy and healthy dietary patterns to periodontitis in adolescents: A population-based study. J Clin Periodontol. 2022 Jun;49(6):580-590.
- Peres KG, Nascimento GG, Gupta A, Singh A, Cassiano LS, Rugg-Gunn AJ. Scoping Review of Oral Health-Related Birth Cohort Studies: Toward a Global Consortium. J Dent Res. 2022 Jun;101(6):632-646.
- Nascimento GG, Goettems ML, Schertel Cassiano L, Horta BL, Demarco FF. Clinical and self-reported oral conditions and quality of life in the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort. J Clin Periodontol. 2021 Sep;48(9):1200-1207.
- Nascimento GG, Seerig LM, Schuch HS, Horta BL, Peres KG, Peres MA, Corrêa MB, Demarco FF. Income at birth and tooth loss due to dental caries in adulthood: The 1982 Pelotas birth cohort. Oral Dis. 2020 Oct;26(7):1494-1501.
- Nascimento GG, Møller HJ, López R. Macrophage activity is associated with gingival inflammation: Soluble CD163 in an experimental gingivitis study. Cytokine. 2020 Mar;127:154954.
- Schuch HS, Nascimento GG, Peres KG, Mittinty MN, Demarco FF, Correa MB, Gigante DP, Horta BL, Peres MA, Do LG. The Controlled Direct Effect of Early-Life Socioeconomic Position on Periodontitis in a Birth Cohort. Am J Epidemiol. 2019 Jun 1;188(6):1101-1108.
- Nascimento GG, Gastal MT, Leite FRM, Quevedo LA, Peres KG, Peres MA, Horta BL, Barros FC, Demarco FF. Is there an association between depression and periodontitis? A birth cohort study. J Clin Periodontol. 2019 Jan;46(1):31-39.
- Nascimento GG, Leite FRM, Peres KG, Demarco FF, Corrêa MB, Peres MA. Metabolic syndrome and periodontitis: A structural equation modeling approach. J Periodontol. 2019 Jun;90(6):655-662.
- Nascimento GG, Danielsen B, Baelum V, Lopez R. Identification of inflammatory response patterns in experimental gingivitis studies. Eur J Oral Sci. 2019 Feb;127(1):33-39.
- Nascimento GG, Leite FRM, Vestergaard P, Scheutz F, López R. Does diabetes increase the risk of periodontitis? A systematic review and meta-regression analysis of longitudinal prospective studies. Acta Diabetol. 2018 Jul;55(7):653-667.
- Nascimento GG, Peres MA, Mittinty MN, Peres KG, Do LG, Horta BL, Gigante DP, Corrêa MB, Demarco FF. Diet-Induced Overweight and Obesity and Periodontitis Risk: An Application of the Parametric G-Formula in the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort. Am J Epidemiol. 2017 Mar 15;185(6):442-451.
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Research Trials
- Exploring the association between oral inflammation, chemosensory disorders, and food preferences
- Investigating the association between chewing ability and physical and cognitive impairment among Singaporean elderly
- Establishing the GLOBICS – The Global consortium of Oral health-related Birth Cohort Studies
- Examining the Oral Disease Burden over the life course
- Assessing the effects of health behaviors on the burden of oral diseases – The Global Burden of Diseases
- Studying the impact of addictive substances on oral health outcomes in birth cohort studies
- Investigating the relationship between diabetes, bowel diseases, and rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis among Danish adults – a population-based cohort study
- Evaluating oral health conditions and developing a new oral health care protocol for patients with neurological impairment
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