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Marcio da Fonseca, DDS, MS

Chicago Dental Society Foundation Professor

Pediatric Dentistry

Contact

Address:

College of Dentistry 801 S. Paulina, IL 60612

About

Education & Career

  • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Advanced Program in Pediatric Dentistry and Master of Science degree
  • Denver Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Dentistry Fellow
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Oral Medicine Fellow
  • Editor, Journal of Dentistry for Children, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

Clinical activities & specialties

Dr. da Fonseca has extensive clinical experience in dental care for medically compromised children and adolescents. His research interests include oral - systemic health connections, dental education and poverty. He has spent most of his career in academic pediatric dentistry. He has published several articles and book chapters and co-edited a pediatric dentistry book.

Selected Publications

Ralstrom E, da Fonseca MA, Rhodes M, Amini H. The impact of oral health in adolescents with sickle cell disease. Pediatric Dentistry 36:24-28; 2014.

da Fonseca MA. Eat or Heat? The Effects of Poverty on Children’s Behavior. Pediatric Dentistry 36:132-137, 2014.

Chi DL, da Fonseca MA, Dinh M, Scott J. An exploratory cross-sectional analysis of socioeconomic status, food insecurity, and fast food consumption: implications for dietary research to reduce children’s oral health disparities. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 115:1599-1604, 2015.

Patrick J, da Fonseca MA, Kaste L, Fadavi S, Shah N, Sroussi H. Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Pediatric Patients with Cystic Fibrosis. Special Care Dentistry 36:187-193; 2016.

da Fonseca MA. Malnutrition and Oral Health in Children. Current Oral Health Reports 4:92-96, 2017.

Mitchual S, da Fonseca MA, Raja S, Weatherspoon DJ, Koerber A. Association Between Childhood Traumatic Stress and Behavior in the Pediatric Dental Clinic. Pediatric Dentistry 39:203-208, 2017.

Nelson T, da Fonseca MA, Scott J, Hannanvash N, Weinstein P. Patient care agreements to improve pediatric dental compliance and self-efficacy. Pediatric Dentistry 39:299-303, 2017.

da Fonseca MA, Avenetti D. Social Determinants of Pediatric Oral Health. Dental Clinics of North America 61(3):519-532, 2017. (Issue: Evidence-Based Pediatric Dentistry. DL Chi, editor)

da Fonseca MA, Strumpf M. Dental local anesthesia for patients with pseudocholinesterase deficiency. Special Care Dentistry 2018 Jan 18. doi: 10.1111/scd.12270. [Epub ahead of print] (editorial)

McCloe D, Marion I, da Fonseca MA, Colvard M, AlQahtani S. Age Estimation of Hispanic Children Using the London Atlas. Forensic Science International 2018; 288:332.e1-332.e6, 2018.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.04.013

Pham C-L, Kratunova E, Marion I, da Fonseca M, Alapati S. Effect of overlying material on final setting of Biodentine setting reaction in primary molar pulpotomy. Pediatric Dentistry 2019; 41(2):140-5.

da Fonseca MA, Townsend J, Rodriguez T, LeHew C. Characteristics and Professional Development Needs of Pediatric Dentistry Chairs in the United States and Canada. Pediatric Dentistry 41(4):293-8, 2019.

Raja S, da Fonseca MA, Rabinowitz EP. Patient Preferences on Sharing Private Information in Dental Settings. Journal of the American Dental Association 151(1):33-42, 2020.

Townsend J, da Fonseca MA, Rodriguez T, LeHew C. Gender differences in pediatric dentistry chairs in the United States and Canada. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry 44(5):323-31, 2020.

Pappas A, Raja S, da Fonseca MA, Stanford CM, Le Hew CW. Female caregivers’ depression risk affects children’s attendance to dental appointments – A pilot study. Pediatric Dentistry 42(6):464-9; 2020.

Brar K, Kratunova E, Avenetti D, da Fonseca MA, Marion I, Alapati SB. Success of Biodentine and ferric sulfate as pulpotomy materials in primary molars: A retrospective study. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry 45(1):22-28, 2021.

Smith P, Raja S, da Fonseca MA. Caregivers’ comfort answering sensitive questions about themselves and their children in a pediatric dental setting. Pediatric Dentistry 43(3):198-204; 2021.

Kratunova E, Zhang I, da Fonseca MA. Dental considerations in patients with Loeys-Dietz Syndrome: A review of the literature and case report. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry 45(3):193-8, 2021.

Hill B, Mugayar LRF, da Fonseca MA. Oral health implications of risk behaviors in adolescence. Dental Clinics of North America 65(4):669-687, 2021.

Zhang I, Kratunova E, da Fonseca MA, Marion I, Han M. Articaine infiltration versus lidocaine inferior alveolar nerve block for anesthetizing primary mandibular molars: A randomized, controlled, single-blind pilot study. Pediatric Dentistry 45(5):344-348, 2021.

Wu H-H, Rahim N, Mbadiwe N, Khayat S, da Fonseca MA, Peters E, Hsu LL. Vaso-occlusive pain crisis mimicking mandibular abscess in an adolescent with sickle cell disease: A case report. Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology (accepted for publication 2021).

Vorwaller R, Kratunova E, da Fonseca MA, Hill BJ, Alapati S, Stanford C. Developmental dental anomalies in children: Prevalence and association with health status. Pediatric Dentistry 43(6):451-456, 2021.

Hill B, da Fonseca MA, Hsu L. Nitrous oxide for dental procedures in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease – A pilot study. Pediatric Dentistry 43(6):481-483, 2021.

Book chapters

da Fonseca MA. Oral and Dental Care of Local and Systemic Diseases. In: Pediatric Dentistry – Infancy through Adolescence. PS Casamassimo, DJ McTigue, HW Fields, AJ Nowak, Eds. 5th Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders Co., 2013, pp. 65-80

da Fonseca MA, Nelson TM. General Anesthesia in Pediatric Dentistry. In: Behavior Management in Dentistry for Children. GZ Wright, A Kupietzky, Eds. 2nd Ames, Iowa: Wiley Blackwell, 2014, pp. 185-195.

da Fonseca MA. Childhood Cancer. In: The Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry. PS Casamassimo, AJ Nowak, Eds. 5th Chicago: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, 2018.

da Fonseca MA. Nephrology. In: The Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry. AJ Nowak, PS Casamassimo, Eds. 5th Chicago: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, 2018.

da Fonseca MA. Oral and Dental Care of Local and Systemic Diseases. In: Pediatric Dentistry – Infancy through Adolescence.  PS Casamassimo, DJ McTigue, HW Fields, AJ Nowak, Eds. 6th Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders Co., 2018.

Kratunova E, da Fonseca MA. Common Oral Conditions in Children with Special Health Needs. In: Nelson TM, Webb JR, Eds. Dental Care for Children with Special Needs: A Clinical Guide. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, pp. 167-93.

da Fonseca MA, Kratunova E.  Management of Medically Compromised Paediatric Patients. In: Cameron AC, Widmer RP, Eds. Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry. 5th Sydney: Mosby-Elsevier, 2022, pp. 368-434.

da Fonseca MA, Nelson T. The Use of General Anesthesia in Behavior Management. In Wright’s Behavior Management in Dentistry for Children. A. Kupietzky, Ed. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022, pp. 231-243.