Dentistry residents can expect to:
- Treat 40 to 50 patients a week, including children, seniors, the medically compromised and developmentally disabled
- Develop complex diagnostic treatment planning and clinical skills
- Attend Journal Club monthly review of research articles
- Focus on comprehensive care, continuity of care and cosmetic dentistry, including full mouth rehabilitation
- Work with a full-time hygienist
- Provide restorative and oral surgical care in the OR and handle trauma in the clinic and emergency room
- Participate in two-week rotations to medicine and anesthesiology and a week in the OR learning venipuncture
- Attend a monthly schedule to practice dentistry in the OR, including history and physical (H & P) experience
- Cover on-call every fourth week
- Practice four-handed dentistry, with one assistant per resident
- Participate in our Orofacial Pain Center
- Learn implant placement and restoration
- Interface with all hospital departments to provide complete patient care
- Manage emergency patients while maintaining regularly scheduled appointments
- Learn rotary endodontics and System B with a surgical microscope available
- Use Cerec, which is available in the clinic. Two days of training are provided by the company.
- Train with lasers
- Use a digital radiography system
- Use Dentrix software, digital dental records
