Advanced Education General Dentistry Courses

This summer lecture series:

• Introduces the teaching faculty
• Conveys specific information about aspects of the program and clinic operations
• Gives an overview of the scope and format for the didactic courses and clinical rotations offered throughout the program.

Topics include: infection control, patient relations, quality assurance, chart documentation, standards of care in radiology, oral pathology, oral surgery, periodontology, pediatric dentistry, geriatric dentistry, temporomandibular joint disorder, orthodontics, preventive dentistry, dental emergency care, medical emergency care, developmentally disabled patients, xerostomia, intra-oral photography, prescription writing, case presentation, dental laboratory relations, treatment planning, library services, evidence-based dentistry and behavioral sciences.

This course introduces concepts of endodontic therapy, teaching residents to:

• Access, diagnose, clean, shape and obturate a root canal system
• Understand when treatment of RCS should be referred.

• Materials, equipment, and devices in the clinic
• Concepts of cavity design and pulp protection.

• Policy for oral surgery, familiarity with instrumentation, use appropriate surgical technique to minimize trauma to soft and neurological tissue, obtain basic skills for proper suturing technique and properly use surgical instruments.

• Appropriate use for all periodontal examination and surgical instruments
• Complete a comprehensive periodontal examination
• Analyze results from a comprehensive periodontal examination,complete chart documentation used for a periodontal examination
• Principles of periodontal disease and its treatment.

• Primary considerations in treatment planning, complete dentures, and the general principles for removable partial denture design.
• Proper placement of rest preparations and guide planes on teeth in removable partial denture fabrication
• Principles of tooth preparation for porcelain-fused-to-metal and full-cast crowns.
• Handling alginate, zinc phosphate and polycarboxylate cements, dental stone and plaster.
• Principles of endodontic tooth treatment planning and restoration and the basic principles of post, pin and core placement for endodontically treated teeth.

The patient population in the general dentistry program allows the resident to receive significant training in this clinical area. Each resident is expected to perform the endodontic therapy when indicated for assigned patients. In addition, the faculty member in endodontics is available weekly for consultation and assistance.

• Advanced concepts of endodontic therapy
• Enhance skills in diagnosing endodontic problems
• Biology and anatomy of the root canal system
• Proper use of dental materials in endodontic therapy

Each resident will give a formal case presentation at weekly seminar sessions.

• Enhance knowledge and skills in adhesive dentistry.
• Treatment planning of complex restorative cases with cosmetic restorations
• Restoring and sealing porcelain veneers, direct bonding, placing posterior direct bonded composite restorations, splinting teeth and fabricate fiber reinforced bridges, fabricating and place bonded post and cores and preparing and delivering posterior porcelain restorations

• Conducting a literature review on a particular dental topic
• Develop critical judgment when reading dental research articles.
• Prepare a well organized oral report based upon divergent literature citations.
• Develop experience in speaking before a group.
• Acquire detailed knowledge about a particular area of dentistry.

• With faculty mentor resident will review current literature and moderate discussion on selected topics.

• Basic diagnosis, treatment planning and mechanotherapy of orthodontics
• Understand which cases are appropriate to treat and which cases to refer to a specialist
• Includes a rotation in the UREDC orthodontic department for one week

• Management and treatment of dental conditions as presented in a pediatric patient
• Behavioral management techniques
• Appropriately administer local anesthetics to the pediatric patient
• Diagnosing need for placement of stainless steel crowns
• Preventive therapy for a pediatric patient.

• Etiology, signs and symptoms of acute periodontal abscesses, perio-endo infections, ANUG, AHGS, acute gingivitis and acute periodontitis
• Diagnose and record periodontal disease by case type and to learn about instrumentation
• Anatomical and physiological basis for the etiology of periodontal disease and its management
• Local systematic factors which initiate and effect the course of periodontal disease
• Differences between trauma from occlusal and periodontal adaption to occlusal force
• Theories regarding the additive effects of inflammation and occlusal loading
• Rudiments of scaling, root planing, plaque control instructions, patient education and motivation
• Systematic and topical antimicrobial therapy as an adjunct to comprehensive periodontal treatment
• Relationship between endodontic, orthodontic, oral surgical, restorative and prosthodontic procedures and periodontal status
• Indications and contraindications for periodontal flaps
• Basic flap design and management
• Indications and contraindications of synthetic, heterogeneous and autogenous bone grafts
• Guided tissue regeneration

• Participants will become familiar with all aspects of dental practice

Research is required for residents in the two-year program. Residents in the one-year program who are strongly interested may also participate in research as an elective.

• Understand the requirements for research and research related aspects in the 2-year AEGD program
• Select a research topic and a mentor and to develop an initial concept of a research question
• Prepare and present a research protocol and research results
• Facilitate and encourage continuous progress of a research project
• Stimulate critical evaluation of research protocols and results

• Diagnosis and dental treatment planning for patients who have medical problems including: hypertension and ischemic heart disease, pregnancy, bone marrow transplantation and chemotherapy, diabetes, adrenal gland disorders and corticosteroid therapy, bleeding disorders, infective endocarditis, renal dialysis and end stage renal disease, head and neck radiation, HIV/AIDS, and psychiatric disorders.

• Concepts pertinent to geriatric dentistry related to: theories of aging, demographics, and their relevance to future dental practice, changes with age in the areas of nutrition, medicine, psychiatry, pharmacology, and mental health.
• Case management for patients with developmental disabilities
• Common birth defects, legal and ethical issues, genetic developmental disabilities, craniofacial deformities, outpatient sedation as a management modality for the DD dental patient, managing the developmentally disabled child and developmentally disabled adult in the dental office

• Complexity of the ethical, moral, and legal considerations that influence clinical decision-making in dentistry

• Current working knowledge of the pathogenesis and expression of selected abnormalities and disease affecting the oral, head and neck region
• Correlation of basic pathologic changes with clinical findings, changes and symptomatology
• Methodical approach to clinical diagnosis of orofacial abnormalities and the formulation of a differential diagnosis
• Clinicopathologic correlation will be used to help participants further develop methodical approaches to differential diagnosis and patient work-up

• Three-day course in the use of local anesthetic techniques of pain control in dental practice, the administration of nitrous oxide analgesia, the selection and use of analgesics in perioperative pain control
• Complex biopsychosocial issues involved in pain and anxiety response
• Legal issues surrounding administration of conscious sedation

• Obtain patient histories, perform a basic physical evaluation and assess the overall health status of patients.

In this course, residents will become familiarized with basic biologic and technical aspects of osseointegrated implants, through lectures and hands-on learning.

• Morphology and physiology of the normal and abnormal temporomandibular joint
• Basic physiology of the muscles of mastication
• Osteogenesis and pathoses of the jaw bones and temporomandibular joint
• Diagnostic skills for limited neurological evaluation as well as ear, nose and throat examinations
• Differentially diagnose basic forms of headache in the head and neck area
• Components of clinical examination of patients with facial pain

• Gross and cross-sectional anatomy, standard, and sectional (CT and MRI) radiographic images and common development anomalies.

• Historical overview of the developments of dental implants, the histopathology at the tissue-implant interface, treatment planning from the surgical and prosthetic perspectives using diagnostic imaging and surgical guides, site preparation using different types of grafting techniques, the various implant components and when to use them, functional and esthetic prosthetic considerations, complications that can occur and how to handle them, an ability to provide long term maintenance both from the biologic and mechanical viewpoint.

• Advanced concepts in periodontology related to anatomy and physiology, etiology, pathogenesis, therapy, regeneration techniques, prevention, and study design.

• Complexity of the growth processes in the craniofacial region
• Current concepts and research in this field and their clinical implications. Many of the lectures will be given by guest faculty of institutions outside of the Rochester area.

• Principles and methods of epidemiology
• Conduct a simple epidemiologic study and to critically assess the dental epidemiologic literature.
• Epidemiologic methods used to identify individuals at high risk to oral diseases of current public health importance.

• Basics of research design with framework for development of a research protocol. This framework will serve to foster critical thinking regarding published studies as well as guide students in their own research project.
• Basic concepts in research design related to: development of research questions, selection of a study design, strengths and weaknesses of different study designs, causal inference, issues that relate to bias, measurement and ethical issues.

• Scientific principles of the caries process related to the practice of clinical dentistry