Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto

Assistant Invited Professor

Generic Bio

  • In 2013 completed the Master’s Degree in Dental Medicine at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa;
  • Post-graduated in Oro-Maxillofacial Pathology at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in 2014;
  • PhD in Biomedicine at the Universidade da Beira Interior in 2018;
  • Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Responsible for the knowledge field of Oral Medicine and Professor of Gerodontology.
  • Researcher at the Precision Oral Health Platform: 4-All Lab of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), with publications in the form of abstract in national and international congresses and several published scientific articles.
  • Her main research interests are the identification of oral health problems and the impacts they have on the quality of life of special patients, thus seeking to restructure and readjust the available resources to the needs of individuals, or plan and implement new intervention programs in oral health. It also seeks to carry out epidemiological assessments with careful collections of statistical data on this population, systematically controlling their living conditions and the exercise of human rights, making them a public health priority.
Paper

Assessment of oral health care among the institutionalized elderly caregivers

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto, Rita Bornes & Nélio Jorge Veiga (with Maria Tavares). 2019. International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Health
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Avaliação da autoperceção da saúde oral por idosos institucionalizados

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Couto, Patrícia). 2017.
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Avaliação da saúde oral numa amostra de pacientes portugueses

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto & Nélio Jorge Veiga (with Pedro Coelho). 2012. XXI Congresso da Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas, 8/11/12
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Cárie dentária e materiais restauradores em população de Clínica Universitária

Rute Patricia Alves do Rio Pereira de Sousa & Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Couto, Patrícia). 2013. XXXIII Congresso Anual SPEMD, 11/10/13
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Characterization of oral health in a Portuguese population with mild intellectual disability

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Patrícia Couto). 2019. Special Care in Dentistry
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CR0379 Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue: a case report

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Rui Amaral Mendes). 2014. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
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Criação de uma base de dados online com fichas clínicas dos pacientes geriátricos

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Couto, Patrícia). 2012.
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Granuloma Gravídico: a propósito de um caso clínico

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Serrão, T). 2019.
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Importância da alimentação para a saúde oral dos idosos

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto & Nélio Jorge Veiga (with Sofia Duarte). 2017. XII Jornadas de Medicina Dentária da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Viseu, Portugal, 18/05/17
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Medicação antidepressiva e saúde oral em idosos institucionalizados

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto & Nélio Jorge Veiga (with F. Marques). 2017. XII Jornadas de Medicina Dentária da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Viseu, Portugal, 18/05/17
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Oral health-related quality of life of Portuguese adults with mild intellectual disabilities

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Patrícia Couto). 2018. PLOS ONE
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Perda de peças dentárias e possíveis relações causais em diferentes amostras demográficas de idosos institucionalizados

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Rodrigues, C). 2017.
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Perfil de los pacientes geriátricos en la Clínica Universitaria

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Couto, Patrícia). 2012. Medicina Oral, Patología Oral y Cirugía Bucal
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Perfil dos pacientes geriátricos da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Couto, Patrícia). 2012.
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Prevalência de retenções dentárias nos utentes adultos da Clínica Universitária da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Patrícia Couto). 2016. Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia, Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial
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Saúde oral e qualidade de vida na pessoa com deficiência intelectual: contextos de autonomia

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Couto, Patrícia). 2017.
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Self-perceived oral health assessement of institutionalized elderly of Viseu

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto & Nélio Jorge Veiga (with Veiga, Nélio Jorge). 2019. J Pub Health Catalog
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The influence of population aging in public health

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto & Nélio Jorge Veiga (with Nélio Veiga). 2018. International Research Journal of Public Health
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Validation of a Portuguese version of the Oral Health Impact Profile adapted to people with mild intellectual disabilities (OHIP-14-MID-PT)

Patrícia Sofia Soares Couto (with Patrícia Couto). 2018. PLOS ONE