The fourth-year concentration program allows students to pursue their career interests in dentistry or to begin to focus on a specialty area that may or may not be pursued after graduation. Fourth-year students can select courses from a wide range of clinical, basic, and behavioral sciences, based on their individual interests.
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- D4 students spend a lot of time in the clinic. The fourth year also consists of externships and remote area medical clinical service trips.
- Students will also have the opportunity to pursue concentrations during the fourth year, as well as taking elective courses.
- The year concludes with students applying to residency, taking their regional state licensing exams, and finally, graduation!
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- The concentration program is an option that allows fourth-year students to focus their course selections and gain additional clinical experience in specific areas of individual interest.
- Current concentrations include endodontics, esthetic dentistry, oral biology, oral diagnostic sciences, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and prosthodontics. Students admitted to one of these concentrations take a set program of clinical and didactic courses and work more closely with the faculty of a particular department. Interested students apply to participating departments at the end of the third year.
- In the fourth year, the time devoted to clinical patient care is expanded. Fourth-year students spend five full days in the clinic each week, with classes and labs scheduled before clinic at 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. or after clinic at 4:00 p.m.
- Students remain in the operatories assigned for their use at the end of the second year. Fourth-year students provide all phases of dental care to between twenty-two and twenty-six patients. At this level, students take on the major responsibility for determining and meeting their patients’ treatment needs, and learn to examine, diagnose, and develop treatment plans; they also schedule care for their patients in an efficient and productive manner.
- The objective of this fourth-year clinical experience is to simulate private practice and facilitate the transition to the responsibilities of a licensed practitioner.
- Continued rotations through local hospital dental clinics provide additional clinical experience.
- In the fourth year, the hospital experience is broadened and students have the opportunity to participate in rounds and clinical conferences.
- Take a look at the tables below to view the curriculum for both fall and spring of the fourth year at UB Dental.
- Click the links below to view full course descriptions for each semester as well!
Fall Semester
| CLD 805 | Oral Health Inequities (Early Fall) |
| CLD 841 | Comprehensive Care Clinic III |
| CLD 845 | Treatment Planning & Cases III |
| ODS 840 | Develop Patient Assessment Management Skills |
| OSU 843 | Oral Surgery Clinic III |
| ORT 843 | Orthodontics Seminar/Clinic I |
| PDO 843 | Pediatric Dentistry Clinic III |
| PER 838 | Endodontics Clinic III |
| PER 839 | Introduction to Lasers |
| PER 843 | Periodontology Clinic III |
| RDN 841 | Health Care Practice Management |
| RDN 843 | Case-Based Dental Biomaterials |
| RDN 847 | Indirect Clinic Restorations III |
| RDN 848 | Direct Restorations Clinic |
| RDN 849 | Removable Prosth. Clinic III |
| RDN 850 | Implant Dentistry Clinic II |
Spring Semester
| CLD 842 | Comprehensive Care Clinic IV |
| CLD 853 | Treatment Planning & Cases IV |
| ODS 848 | Clinical Diagnosis IV |
| ORT 844 | Orthodontics Seminar/Clinic II |
| OSU 844 | Oral Surgery Clinic IV |
| PDO 843 | Pediatric Dentistry Clinic IV |
| PDO 845 | Behavioral Medicine & Clinical Practice |
| PER 839 | Endodontics Clinic IV |
| PER 844 | Periodontology IV |
| RDN 844 | Indirect Clinic Restorations IV |
| RDN 846 | Direct Restorations Clinic |
| RDN 851 | Implant Dentistry Clinic |
| RDN 857 | Removable Prosthodontic IV |
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School of Dental Medicine
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University at Buffalo
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