Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) Program
This program is designed to reflect a private general practice within a dental school setting. Residents provide comprehensive care to a diverse patient population and receive experience in all facets of general dentistry, including significant exposure to implant dentistry and digital technology.
FALL 2026 ENROLLMENT | Applications
Traditional: Check back Spring 2025 for deadline
International Scholars: Check back Spring 2025 for deadline
Program Director:
Joseph Rumfola, DDS
Department of Restorative Dentistry, 215 Squire Hall
rumfola@buffalo.edu
Faculty and Curriculum
Faculty at UB's School of Dental Medicine are committed to providing students an inclusive and diverse learning environment and promoting improvements to oral health, not only at our school, but worldwide. Our highly trained faculty, innovative curriculum, and clinic experience are among the top reasons our students choose our school.
The curriculum is designed to provide advanced training beyond pre-doctoral education in clinical dentistry. Students will refine those skills necessary to provide comprehensive patient care for all population groups.
Available experience includes:
- Restorative dentistry: direct restorations using resin composite and amalgam
- Prosthetic dentistry: single crowns, fixed dental prosthetic units, complete and partial dentures
- Esthetic dentistry
- Implant dentistry: placement and restoration of single and multiple units
- Digital dentistry: CEREC, Planmeca, 3Shape triOS
- Cone Beam CT and implant planning software
- Soft tissue diode lasers and piezosurgery
- Periodontal and oral surgery
- Rotary endodontics
- Bone grafting
- Treatment planning of complex cases
- Care of medically complex patients
- Teaching in the pre-doctoral program
Faculty is one of the greatest assets of the AEGD program. All general dental faculty members have experience in private practice, and there is access to faculty in every dental specialty. Two dedicated faculty members are assigned at each clinic session, and the ratio of faculty to residents is 1:5 or better. The program relies on more than 35 associated faculty members, with supervising faculty whose only responsibility is resident instruction.
Faculty may include those who are:
- Dual-certified
- Diplomates of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry
- Advanced certification holders in esthetic dentistry