Vanessa Maria de Paredes Gallardo

Vanessa Maria de Paredes Gallardo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Stomatology at the Faculty of Medicine and Odontology, University of Valencia, Spain. She is actively engaged in research through two multidisciplinary groups: INVESLOGO Multidisciplinary Speech Therapy Research Group and VALORTO-INVES Orthodontics Research Group.

Her research focuses on digital methodologies in dentistry, particularly in the area of dental size measurement and prediction, with clinical applications in orthodontic diagnosis such as Bolton discrepancy analysis. This work bridges clinical stomatology with quantitative and digital modeling techniques.

She earned her doctorate from the University of Valencia in 2004 with a thesis titled Desarrollo de un método digital para la medición y predicción de tamaños dentarios aplicaciones para determinar alteraciones en el índice de Bolton, supervised by Dr. Rosa María Cibrián Ortiz de Anda and Dr. José Luis Gandía Franco.

Dr. Gallardo contributes to academic research and training within her faculty, participating in interdisciplinary projects that integrate orthodontics with speech therapy and digital diagnostics. Although no specific grants are mentioned, her sustained involvement in research groups indicates ongoing scholarly activity.

The INVESLOGO and VALORTO-INVES research groups reflect her commitment to collaborative, applied research in oral health sciences, combining clinical expertise with innovative measurement technologies.