Professor Teresa Villanueva Gutiérrez studied a Bachelor's Degree in Stomatology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus. Her Master's Degree in Dental Sciences, Oral Public Health at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She has a Diploma in Pediatric Dentistry, COOD.

Within her area of research is the investigation of dental anomalies that affect oral health and quality of life and the identification of risk factors in oral diseases.

CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH WORK:

1) García Pérez A, Barrera Ortega CC, González-Aragón Pineda AE, Villanueva Gutiérrez T, Pérez Pérez Pérez NG, Calderon Uriostegui D. An inverse relationship between obesity and dental caries in Mexican schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study. Public Health 2020; 180:163-167.

2) Villanueva Gutiérrez T, Barrera Ortega CC, García Pérez A, González-Aragón Pineda AE. Relationship between Molar Incisor Hypomineralization (MIH) severity and cavitated carious lesions in schoolchildren. Acta Odontol. Latinoam.2019; 32(3): 133-140.

She has received the following awards and distinctions: 1) Third place in the category Free Work Epidemiological research, poster modality in the XXV National and XVI Iberoamerican Meeting of Research in Dentistry held at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas" from November 8 to 10, 2017. Villanueva Gutiérrez T, Irigoyen Camacho ME, Zepeda Zepeda MA. "Prevalence and gravity of HIM in school children in the south-east of Mexico City"; and 2) First place in the Master's category, epidemiological area, poster exhibition at the XXIV National and XV Ibero-American Meeting of Research in Dentistry held in San Luis Potosí, November 9, 10 and 11, 2016. Villanueva Gutiérrez T, Irigoyen Camacho ME, Castaño Seiquer A, Zepeda Zepeda MA. "Association between HIM and caries in elementary schools in Tláhuac".