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A university-based and hospital-affiliated certificate program, graduates are prepared to be clinical specialists, to critically evaluate the scientific literature, to teach, or to combine these activities to suit personal goals in private practice, academics, research, or public health dentistry. Program Strengths
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Didactic Courses & Lectures
- Residents attend lectures presented by leading practitioners and researchers on topics such as oral disease prevention, epidemiology, cariology, scientific foundations of pediatric dentistry, and growth and development.
- Specialty courses include behavior management, pediatric pharmacology, interceptive orthodontics, speech, minor oral surgery, enteral sedation, pulp therapy, traumatic injuries, dental care for people with developmental disabilities and the medically compromised, and pediatric physical diagnosis.
- Lectures and seminars on other areas of dentistry and science are offered along with specialty courses in child psychology, management of child behavior, premedication and analgesia, pediatric advanced life support, hospital dentistry, cleft and craniofacial anomalies, pediatric dental radiology, cariology, biostatistics, epidemiology, and pediatric medicine.
- Occlusal guidance, operative and prosthetic procedures for primary and mixed dentitions, infant oral health education, and scientific research methods.
- Seminars are an important part of the pediatric dentistry program. Residents are expected to prepare seminars and present lectures to the department as part of the teaching experience.
- The Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine provide intensive clinical rotations at Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong.
Pediatric Dentistry Course Listing
Research
Under the supervision of faculty, each resident will prepare and present a research project, with application to pediatric dentistry. This project is required for certification. Research may be of a clinical or basic-science nature. Residents choose research based on their interests and the topics's relationship to children's oral health.
Those interested in graduate studies may be allowed to expand these projects and combine them with course work at the University of Rochester leading to an advanced academic degree after one or more additional years of study. Residents are eligible to apply for positions as graduate students in programs leading to a Masters or Ph.D. degree sponsored by the University of Rochester.
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Faculty
| * Certified by the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry | |
| Aliakbar Bahreman, D.D.S., M.S. | Professor, Orthodontics |
| Robert Berkowitz, D.D.S. | Professor and Chair, Pediatric Dentistry |
| Charles Brenner, D.M.D. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry* |
| Daniel Glowinsky, D.D.S. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry |
| Mary Hauk, D.D.S. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry |
| Chia Huang, D.D.S., M.S. | Assistant Professor, Community Dentistry |
| Jeffrey Karp, D.M.D., M.S. | Assistant Professor and Program Director, Pediatric Dentistry* |
| Doron Kochman, D.D.S. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry* |
| David Levy, D.M.D. | Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry* |
| Sean McLaren, D.D.S. | Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry |
| Steven Meinhold, D.D.S. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Community Dentistry |
| Gerald Rosen, D.D.S. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry* |
| Cynthia Slack, D.D.S. | Clinical Instructor, Pediatric Dentistry |
| Soraya Steinhilber, D.D.S. | Clinical Instructor, Pediatric Dentistry |
| Robert Willis, D.D.S. | Clinical Instructor, Pediatric Dentistry* |
| Brian Winslow, D.D.S. | Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry |
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