Opened Practices Users Named: Esperanza

415 Lansing St
Indianapolis IN

E. Angeles Martínez Mier, DDS, MSD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at Indiana University School of Dentistry. She serves as director of the Fluoride research program and the Binational/Cross-Cultural Health Enhancement Center. Dr. Martínez Mier previously held the positions of Preventive Dentistry Department Chair and Coordinator of undergraduate periodontics at the Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City, Mexico. After receiving her dental degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1989, Dr. Martínez Mier completed a Master’s of Science in Dentistry, majoring in Preventive Dentistry at Indiana University School of Dentistry, in 1994; and a three-year clinical fellowship in Periodontics, also at the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1995. She then obtained a PhD in Dental Sciences in 2000 from Indiana University. Dr. Martínez Mier's research has been funded by grants from the National institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Clarian Health, Delta Dental Insurance, and the West Foundation. Her research projects have received National and International awards. Dr. Martínez Mier has lectured as an invited speaker throughout the country and abroad and currently teaches in the DDS and graduate programs at IUSD. She also participates in PBL and a tutor and tutor trainer. Dr. Martínez is the past president of the Indiana Chapter of the Hispanic Dental Association and is a member of the International Association of Dental Research and the European Organization for Caries Research. Her research interests include: Analytical methodologies to accurately determine fluoride presence; the role of fluoride in the onset and progression of demineralization and remineralization; methodologies to diagnose dental fluorosis through clinical; photographic and digital imaging evaluations, including dental fluorosis and incipient caries differential diagnosis; mechanisms by which fluoride affects the development of dental and skeletal fluorosis, including genetic and environmental factors; patients' concerns that may affect their quality of life regarding the presence of dental fluorosis; community-based research designed to address and identify disparities in dental caries and dental fluorosis in Latino/Hispanic patients; community-based research in the area of migrant/binational health and international service-learning.