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CLD846 Implant Dentistry
This course provides students with the scientific basis, current concepts, basic biology and basic techniques in implant surgery, prosthodontics, and peri-implant tissue maintenance. Upon completion, students should be able to recognize the indications for the appropriate utilization of implants as a treatment modality. The student becomes familiar with various implant systems, including their indications and contraindications. Also, information, concepts, and techniques of bone grafting and soft-tissue grafting in the growth of new bone or replacement bone, along with soft tissues associated with dental implants, are presented.
HSI840 Practice and Risk Management
This course consists of a series of presentations, activities, and examinations that provide the concepts and tools necessary to help students with the initiation of their professional career. Topics include business management, information management, personnel management, and practice evaluation and purchase. The underlying objective is to educate future dentists in the principles and concepts necessary for a successful career as a private practitioner.
ODS840 Developing Patient Assessment/Management Skills
The major objective of this fourth-year fall-semester course is to provide senior students with the opportunity to integrate the information they have learned in such areas as oral diagnosis, oral medicine, oral pathology, orofacial pain, and oral radiology to develop their skill in clinical problem solving. This is accomplished by having students present actual patient cases, including recommended management, to classmates and course faculty. Since Part II of the National Dental Board Examination now uses a case-based format, this course serves as a review function for this examination. Also, by providing information to colleagues, students gain an understanding of how different clinicians can have different views about how best to approach a problem or a case. In addition, since such presentations require presenters to justify or explain their clinical decisions, problem-solving skills are enhanced. Finally, because the course emphasizes clinical reasoning rather than single bottom-line answers, the development of skills in differential diagnoses and assessment of management options is reinforced.
ODS847 Oral Radiology Seminar
This seminar helps prepare students for Part II of the National Dental Board Examination by reviewing the important technical and diagnostic aspects of oral and maxillofacial radiology.
CLD845 Review of Biomedical and Dental Sciences
Over the first three years of the predoctoral dental curriculum, dental students are exposed to a wide variety of clinical dental sciences. This 1-credit course provides a brief review of this material and highlights particularly important topics within each area. It also briefly reviews the biomedical and clinical dental sciences covered during the first three years of the dental school curriculum, and familiarizes students with the format and previous content of the National Dental Board Part II Examination. Each student's readiness for the examination is evaluated on an individual basis, and a determination is made of areas within disciplines that require additional emphasis.
CLD841-842 Comprehensive Care Clinic III-IV
These fall- and spring-semester courses are the major clinical experience of the fourth-year vertically integrated clinical program. With the experience gained in the third-year clinical program, students are able to treat patients in a more efficient manor and increase the scope of their clinical experience. Students are assigned patients with a broad variety of treatment needs. By meeting the treatment needs of their assigned patient, students gain a broad-based clinical experience in operative dentistry, fixed prosthodontics, removable prosthodontics, periodontology, clinical diagnosis and evaluation, and endodontics.
This course is part of the combined third- and fourth-year integrated clinical program. The overall goals, objectives, and methods of evaluation may be found in the Policy and Procedures section of CLD832 as "Clinical Assessment Protocol."
ODS843-844 Hospital Dentistry I-II
These courses provide students with practical experience in interacting with, and in many cases, managing, medically compromised dental patients. The hospital environment is ideally suited for this purpose due to its active inpatient and outpatient facilities and activities; the ready availability of expertise from a wide variety of health specialties, including dental faculty with advanced training in hospital dentistry; and the presence of patient populations not typically seen in Squire Hall. To maximize these opportunities, students spend time in several university-affiliated hospitals, including Kaleida Health's Buffalo General Hospital, Deaconess Clinic, Erie County Medical Center, the Buffalo Veterans Affairs medical center, and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
OSU843-844 Oral Surgery Externship I-II
These courses provide continuing experience in the performance of routine surgical procedures on hospital inpatient and outpatient populations. It expands and increases students' experiences in providing care to medically compromised patients. Students are taught how to review hospital charts, perform and obtain consultations, interact with medical colleagues, and perform soft- and hard-tissue surgical procedures under the direct supervision of the oral and maxillofacial surgical residents and attending staff.
ORT843-844 Orthodontics Seminar/Clinic I-II
This seminar exposes students to clinical treatment of "limited" or "minor" malocclusions. The clinical portion of the course is a once-a-week, two-hour experience preceded by a one-hour seminar.
PDO843-844 Pediatric Dentistry Clinic III-IV
These courses represent a continuation of the clinical experience gained in the third year. Students continue to treat patients in the pediatric dentistry clinic of the school and in the dental clinic of Kaleida Health's Children's Hospital of Buffalo. In the fourth year more time is allocated for pediatric dentistry and for providing care to patients with more advanced treatment needs.
CLD847 Comprehensive Treatment Planning
The preceding three and a half years of dental school provide students with the basic science and clinical background necessary to formulate comprehensive treatment plans. This spring-semester course provides classroom reinforcement of the treatment-planning activities that occur in the group practice clinical experience of the third and fourth years. This course also attempts to integrate basic and clinical sciences through a series of case presentations.
ODS845 Advanced Diagnosis Oral Medicine, Pathology, and Radiology
This course provides a review of the more complex oral problems that may be encountered in dental practice and explains the various tests that may be utilized to determine a definitive diagnosis. In addition, various treatment modalities for the management of complex oral conditions are reviewed.
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