Third Year
In the third year, study of most clinical subjects continues, with courses in oral pathology and radiology, pharmacology, oral medicine, and anesthesia. Lecture courses lessen in quantity, and the clinical practice of dentistry begins to take precedence in time and effort. Third-year students spend three full days (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) in the clinic each week, with the remaining two days spent in classes and labs.
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- In year 3, students experience a heavy load of didactic courses. They continue their clinical experience, with rotations in: Pediatrics and or, Urgent Care, Oral Surgery, and the Mobile Unit Dental Van. Students also begin preparing board exam preparations during the third year.
- Third-year students continue in the practice groups assigned during their second year. Each practice group—composed of approximately twenty third-year students, twenty fourth-year students, a director, and a group of faculty—functions like a large group practice.
- Each group works together to provide care to the patients assigned to the practice group. Two practice groups are located on the first-floor clinic; the other two practice groups occupy the second-floor clinic. Each student is assigned an operatory for his/her exclusive use for the third- and fourth-year clinical experience.
- Clinical skills are developed as third-year students provide comprehensive care to between fourteen and eighteen patients and are directly involved in each major discipline of clinical dentistry, including operative dentistry, periodontics, endodontics, orthodontics and pediatric dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and fixed and removable prosthodontics.
- Third-year students perform patient care in all phases of clinical dentistry, gaining the same scope of experience as fourth-year students but taking a little longer and performing less sophisticated procedures.
- While third-year students still require significant faculty supervision, by the end of the third year they have gained sufficient clinical experience to provide treatment to patients with more demanding and comprehensive treatment needs.
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- Third- and fourth-year students are assigned one week out of every four to the dental clinics in a number of Buffalo-area hospitals. This provides an opportunity to treat a larger group of patients with a wide variety of dental-treatment needs and other medical complications.
- Students treat patients and assist postgraduate students and attending dentists as they care for patients. Students spend time at Erie County Medical Center; Kaleida Health’s Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo General Hospital, and Millard Fillmore Hospitals; the VA Western New York Healthcare System; and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
- In these settings, students become familiar with dental care provided in a hospital environment and are given the opportunity to gain operating-room experience, provide restorative care to medically compromised patients, and receive training in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Take a look at the tables below to view the curriculum for both fall and spring of the third year at UB Dental. Click the links below to view full course descriptions for each semester as well!
Fall Semester
| CLD 831 | Comprehensive Care Clinic A & B | |
| Comprehensive care is defined as the diagnosis, prevention and treatment needed to restore optimal oral health, function and appearance. The School’s pre-doctoral students manage their patients comprehensively. This includes referral of their patients to the School’s advanced education programs when indicated, while always maintaining oversight of the patient’s overall care. Clinic Courses Included in the Comprehensive Care Clinic Sequence Early Fall Session: starting point for CLD831 Third Year (D3): CLD831, Fall Semester – 3.0 credit hours Early Fall Session (D4 students) follows the Third Year (D3): This clinical session enables students to provide continued patient care and to gain additional clinical experience. For D3 students who have satisfied all qualitative and quantitative requirements, the Early Fall Session marks the beginning of the Fourth Year. For D3 students who have not satisfied all qualitative and/or quantitative requirements, the Early Fall may provide an opportunity to make up performance deficiencies. If a student does not satisfy all qualitative and/or quantitative requirements of each discipline course they will be assigned an extended clinical session, dates to be determined by Group Director and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, to complete assigned requirements. If the student has not satisfied all qualitative and/or quantitative requirements after the extended session they will not be promoted to the D4 year. The determination of whether a student repeats one or both semesters of D3 versus assignment of an extended clinical session will be made by the Executive Council based on the recommendation of the Student Progress and Promotions Committee. Early Fall carries no credit hour designation. Clinical treatment that is completed during Early Fall sessions is credited to the students overall clinical requirements. Fourth Year (D4): CLD841, Fall Semester – 3.0 credit hours CLD842, Spring Semester – 3.0 credit hours Credits: 3 | ||
| CLD 835 | Treatment Planning & Cases I | |
| The course will be based on team-based learning. The purpose of the course is to facilitate student learning through group activities focusing on evidence based literature, observing D4 case presentations and participating in class discussion. D3 students are divided into presentation groups. Each group will present an evidence-based published article one time during the academic year in either the Fall or Spring semester Credits: 3 | ||
| ODS 832 | Oral Radiology Clinic | |
| Third-year students with faculty supervision, will provide bitewing, periapical, occlusal and full-mouth series of radiographs as per electronically written referral for new, reassigned, and emergency UB SDM predoc patients. The proper use of equipment, shielding, exposure settings, infection control, patient management, quality assurance, image processing, storage, and record documentation will be reinforced. Radiographic reviews will take place with the student as part of quality assurance and interpretation instruction. The radiology faculty review all rotation radiographs prior to storage in the patient electronic record. Dr. DeLuca will present a case-based mini-seminar “Dental Anatomy and Radiographic Restorative Materials Identification” will augment the student’s clinical experience and improve radiographic identification and interpretation. Dr. Hinchy will present a panoramic review comparing anatomical structures on the skull and their appearance on the panoramic radiograph to assist in panoramic interpretation. The charting of full-mouth series of radiographs imaged by rotation students and the one-to-one review with radiology faculty, will improve their understanding of technique, accuracy and parallelism, and procedures used to avoid and correct technical errors, while increasing their ability to discern normal anatomy, caries, restorations, periodontal disease, artifacts and pathology and provide opportunities for clinical and radiological discussions. Students will become more familiar with digital image enhancement tools including: contrast, inversion, colorization, edge-enhancement, magnification, measurements, descriptions, calibration, annotations, and diagnostic comparisons. The student assigned to rotation will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining the clinic x-ray rooms, equipment and scanning stations. The referred student will arrive with an electronic “planned treatment” order for radiographs while their patient waits in the radiology waiting room. The referred student will sign into the paper Radiographic Log and complete all of the requested information. The Radiographic Log entry also serves as a list of patients in order of arrival. When an x-ray room, rotation student, and scanning station are available, the referred student will sign into axiUm and locate their patient. The rotation student will image the patient. Each student assigned to the rotation, will serve as a Designated Digital Scanner to reinforce the skills required for digital radiographic processing including reserving MIPACS, selecting a template, reserving the scanner, scanning images, correcting mirrored and rotated images, remounting a series, describing a series, recording the exposure in the Series Description, saving to the DICOM server in MIPACS with faculty approval, access the patient (E.H.R.)Electronic Health Record and complete the radiographic note in axiUm. Radiology faculty will approve the Radiographic Note in axiUm via swipe card. The Radiology Faculty will change the “Planned Order” in axiUm by double clicking the “P” and mark the Radiographic Order as “Complete “changing it to a “C”. The faculty who wrote the Radiographic order will swipe the completed order. Credits: 3 | ||
| ODS 836 | Oral Pathology II | |
| This course in Diseases of the Oral Mucosa targets selected soft-tissue lesions of the mouth Credits: 2 | ||
| ODS 837 | Clinic Diagnosis I | |
| This course tests the ability of 3rd year dental students to present a patient to a faculty member and demonstrate an appropriate comprehensive head and neck exam. Medical history, a review of the patients' medical problems, vital signs analysis, and head/ neck physical examination are performed while being reviewed by faculty. A grade is assigned, based on the thoroughness of the patient presentation and examination Credits: 3 | ||
| OSU 831 | Oral Surgery I | |
| This required course in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery follows coursework and pre-clinical courses in local anesthesia and normally occurs concomitantly with Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery clinical rotations. Didactic instruction will consist of lectures and suggested readings. It is the first in the two-semester sequence required of all third-year students. It precedes Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery OSU832 given in the Spring semester, which will consider patient evaluation in greater depth as well as complex oral and maxillofacial surgery. OSU831 will focus on basic principles and practices in dentoalveolar surgery with emphasis on pre-surgical evaluation, basic and surgical extractions, management of impacted teeth, biopsy principles and complications arising from dentoalveolar surgery. Credits: 4 | ||
| OSU 833 | Oral Surgery Clinic I | |
| The students will function in the various clinical environments with responsibilities including performance of patient assessment and dentoalveolar surgery, assisting/observation of complex dentoalveolar surgery and observation of conscious sedation administration. Credits: 4 | ||
| OSU 837 | Oral Surgery Boot Camp (Early Fall) | |
| This required course sponsored by Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Dept. follows coursework and preclinical courses in local anesthesia and precedes anesthesia and pain control (including modalities of sedation and anesthesia). Didactic instruction will consist of lectures, selected demonstrations and practical exercises and suggested readings. Course material to be covered will include: practicums in physical examination, patient presentation, relevant documentation, pharmacology immediately relevant to risk factors for dental treatment, local anesthesia, oral surgical armamentarium relevant to general dentists, suturing techniques and armamentarium, infection control, mock code and practical radiographic interpretation. All material lectured upon and practically applied during this week will be tested on the final day via a MEGACODE/CPE. Credits: 4 | ||
| PDO 831 | Pediatric Dentistry & Clinic Pract I | |
| This course is uniquely designed to incorporate a modular curriculum. A stepwise approach to learning will be utilized and includes didactic instruction through case-based lectures (CBL), followed by clinical simulation exercises (CSE) and culminating in direct patient care (DPC). Students will be introduced to the distinctive aspects of pediatric care in the dental environment. The physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of the pediatric population coupled with the epidemiology of oral disease at that age will be addressed. Students will learn the fundamentals of the developing dentition, the essential techniques of pediatric dental procedures, as well as gain exposure to varying pathologies and anomalies that may occur in this population. Skills in the methods of basic and advanced behavior guidance will be developed. Students will also gain an understanding of the basic relationships in pediatric dentistry as reflected within the treatment triangle and the importance of child advocacy Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 831 | Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy | |
| This course focuses on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of different forms of periodontal disease. This course builds upon and assumes knowledge of the didactic and clinical material covered in the first two years of dental school including material in PER821 and PER822. PER831 consists of: • 14 sessions • 3 or more quizzes • 1 midterm examination • 1 final examination This course is designed to complement clinical care provided by D3 students. The course starts with a review of periodontal examination and diagnosis at approximately the same time that students are performing oral examination and preparing problem lists for their patients. The major areas in nonsurgical periodontal therapy are covered so that by the end of the semester, students are able to diagnose periodontal diseases, develop a treatment plan for the treatment of periodontal diseases, and are knowledgeable of non-surgical periodontal therapies. Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 833 | Periodontology Clinic I | |
| This clinical course is designed to increase your knowledge and improve your technical expertise in the delivery of periodontal therapy and its role in maintaining oral health. Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 835 | Endodontics II | |
| This course is the second phase of the Endodontic educational program of the Department of Periodontics and Endodontics. PER835 is designed to enhance the student’s understanding of the biologic basis of endodontic disease, rationale for treatment modalities for routine, emergency, and advanced endodontic situations including retreatment and traumatic injuries, and to expose the student to adjunctive endodontic therapy. PER835 is a 1.5 credit-hour course consisting of: 14 Lecture sessions Quizzes Lab Projects Midterm Examination Final Written Examination Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 836 | Endodontics Clinic I | |
| This course is part of the combined third and fourth year integrated clinical program, specifically addressing the Endodontic needs of the patients of the School of Dental Medicine. Credits: 4 | ||
| PMY 831 | Principles of Pharmacology | |
| Principles of Pharmacology presents information to help students gain thorough understanding of drugs essential to the practice of dentistry and to achieve a broad knowledge of common medications used by patients which may have oral side effects or that may influence the patient’s dental treatment. In addition, the course presents survey information of drugs commonly used and affecting bodily systems. PMY831 Part I will be delivered in the Early Fall semester live by distance learning using Zoom technology. Part I will present the principles of pharmacology and the pharmacology of common drugs used in dentistry. PMY831 Part II will present the pharmacology of drugs that dental patients may be taking and how these may affect dental therapy. Part II will also encompass specific drugs that affect the oral cavity as well as inclusion of the top approximate 100 prescribed drugs with which all health practitioners including dentists should be familiar. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 828 | Implant Dentistry I (Early Fall) | |
| This course will focus on aspects of Implant Restorative Dentistry and will be strictly a Laboratory course. Students will learn how to fabricate a radiographic guide, a surgical guide, how to make an impression from implants. Furthermore will learn how to fabricate a temporary crown over an implant, hot to make a fixture level impression, and work on implants-retained overdenture. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 831 | Implant Dentistry II | |
| This course will focus on aspects of Implant Dentistry Surgery. Pharmacological information’s related to premedication and post op medications will be provided. Flap design techniques, Osteotomy sites techniques will be presented and explained. Furthermore ridge augmentation and ridge preservation techniques will be explained and presented, together with soft tissue augmentation techniques. Bone augmentation procedures will be presented such as sinus lift augmentation procedures. The dental students will understand all steps needed to handle an implant patient, how to refer and what to ask to the surgeon. Implant Dentistry II consists of: • 16 one-hour lecture sessions with required reading assignments • 1 Midterm Examination • 1 Final Examination Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 833 | Fixed Prosthodontics I | |
| RDN833 is a lecture series in the Fall semester of the Third Year of the DDS program. Material presented in this course will enhance and expand student understanding of the principles and procedures presented in RDN813[Preclinical Indirect Restorations]. Presentations provide clinically relevant and practical information that supports the students’ clinical experience. The Fall Semester lecture series emphasizes general principles of fixed prosthodontics diagnosis, treatment planning and procedures Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 834 | Indirect Restorations Clinic I | |
| The course entails those same clinical procedures which are initiated with: a] review and recording of medical and dental history; b] recognition and recording of individual’s chief concern (complaint); c]data gathering and recording during a clinical patient examination and radiographic survey; d] followed by definition of a problem list with associated treatment options; e] then definition of a patient specific plan of treatment. This is followed by a series of treatment procedures that are attendant to fixed restorative dentistry, including: (a)foundation restorations; (b)tooth preparation, shade selection; (c)tooth provisional stabilization; (d)tissue displacement and tooth impression; (e)laboratory preparation of working casts mounted on a semi adjustable articulator; (f)completion of laboratory work authorization; and (g)culminated with refinement and definitive placement of an indirectly fabricated restoration. Included throughout this treatment sequence are an ongoing assessment of patient compliance and education in oral hygiene procedures and review of patient responsibilities once active treatment is complete. This approach to patient treatment is repeated with multiple patients across the third clinical year with a minimum of treatments required to satisfy the course criteria. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 835 | Cariology & Direct Restorations I | |
| This Year 3 Fall semester (D3 Fall) lecture course will expand on caries management and direct restorative dentistry preparations and restorations that were taught during the first two years of the curriculum. Emphasis will be place on caries risk assessment for individualizing patient preventive and treatment planning. Minimally Invasive treatment and Evidence-Based care will be stressed. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 836 | Direct Restorations Clinic I | |
| Operative Dentistry is the art and science of Dentistry which deals with the prevention and diagnosis of caries, its management based on risk assessment, the restoration of individual teeth to proper occlusal function and to a form which is in harmony with surrounding hard and soft tissues. This 3rd year patientcentered clinical experience in Operative Dentistry puts into practice what was learned in the 2nd year Operative Preclinical course series (RDN809/810) and 3rd year Operative didactic course (RDN835), and serves as the foundation for the comprehensive patient treatment of the 4th year. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 837 | Removable Prosth. II | |
| RDN837 “Removable Prosthodontics III” is an advanced and clinically oriented continuation of the preclinical lecture and technique courses (RDN824 andRDN826). It assumes knowledge from all the previous courses completed during the 1st and 2nd years of dental school. RDN837 focuses on the diagnosis, treatment planning, and prosthetic rehabilitation of the edentulous state, while it reinforces and expands on the previously attained basic knowledge of the pre-doctoral student on removable rehabilitation. As students begin their entry-level clinical exposure to removable prosthodontics, they need didactic enhancement of the complicated technical aspects of their prosthodontic therapy while reinforcing basic knowledge. By the end of this course, the student should have obtained a strong theoretical foundation for removable prosthodontics. In addition, it is the intent of this course to familiarize the student with certain aspects of prosthodontics that may or may not have a clinical component in the school curriculum but remains an area to which the student should have exposure. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 839 | Removable Prosth. Clinic I | |
| This course is part of the combined third-and fourth-year integrated clinical program. The overall goals, objectives and methods of evaluation are consistent with those of third-year Comprehensive Care Clinic courses CLD831-832. Credits: 4 | ||
Spring Semester
| CLD 832 | Comprehensive Care Clinic II | |
| Comprehensive care is defined as the diagnosis, prevention and treatment needed to restore optimal oralhealth, function and appearance. The School’s pre-doctoral students manage their patients comprehensively. This includes referral of their patients to the School’s advanced education programs when indicated, while always maintaining oversight of the patient’s overall care. Clinic Courses Included in the Comprehensive Care Clinic Sequence Early Fall Session: starting point for CLD831 Third Year (D3): CLD831, Fall Semester – 3.0 credit hours Early Fall Session (D4 students) follows the Third Year (D3): This clinical session enables students to provide continued patient care and to gain additional clinical experience. For D3 students who have satisfied all qualitative and quantitative requirements, the Early Fall Session marks the beginning of the Fourth Year. For D3 students who have not satisfied all qualitative and/or quantitative requirements, the Early Fall may provide an opportunity to make up performance deficiencies. If a student does not satisfy all qualitative and/or quantitative requirements of each discipline course they will be assigned an extended clinical session, dates to be determined by Group Director and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, to complete assigned requirements. If the student has not satisfied all qualitative and/or quantitative requirements after the extended session they will not be promoted to the D4 year. The determination of whether a student repeats one or both semesters of D3 versus assignment of an extended clinical session will be made by the Executive Council based on the recommendation of the Student Progress and Promotions Committee Early Fall carries no credit hour designation. Clinical treatment that is completed during Early Fall sessions is credited to the students overall clinical requirements. Fourth Year (D4): CLD841, Fall Semester–3.0 credit hours CLD842, Spring Semester –3.0 credit hours Credits: 3 | ||
| CLD 838 | Treatment Planning & Cases II | |
| The course will be based on team-based learning. The purpose of the course is to facilitate student learning through group activities focusing on evidence based literature, observing D4 case presentations and participating in class discussion. D3 students are divided into presentation groups. Each group will present an evidence-based published article one time during the academic year in either the Fall or Spring semester. Credits: 3 | ||
| CLD 847 | Professionalism in Practice | |
| Coming soon.. Credits: 3 | ||
| ODS 831 | Management of the Medically Complex Patient | |
| The evaluation of the medically complex patient is integrated with management techniques for appropriate treatment planning and treating of those patients in this course. Credits: 2 | ||
| ODS 832 | Oral Radiology Clinic III | |
| Third-year students with faculty supervision, will provide bitewing, periapical, occlusal and full-mouth series of radiographs as per electronically written referral for new, reassigned, and emergency UB SDM predoc patients. The proper use of equipment, shielding, exposure settings, infection control, patient management, quality assurance, image processing, storage, and record documentation will be reinforced. Radiographic reviews will take place with the student as part of quality assurance and interpretation instruction. The radiology faculty review all rotation radiographs prior to storage in the patient electronic record. A case-based seminar “Panoramic Review” will augment the student’s clinical experience to improve radiographic diagnosis, and the review of normal anatomy and pathology of the orofacial complex will provide opportunities for clinical and radiological discussion. The charting of full-mouth series of radiographs taken by students and the one-to-one review with radiology faculty will improve their understanding of technique, accuracy and parallelism, and procedures used to avoid and correct technical errors, while increasing their ability to discern normal anatomy, caries, restorations, periodontal disease, artifacts and pathology and provide opportunities for clinical and radiological discussions. Students will become more familiar with digital image enhancement tools including: contrast, inversion, colorization, edge-enhancement, magnification, measurements, descriptions, calibration, annotations, and diagnostic comparisons. The student assigned to rotation will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining the clinic x-ray rooms, equipment and scanning stations. The referred student will arrive with an electronic “treatment in progress” order for radiographs while their patient waits in the radiology waiting room. When an x-ray room and scanning station are available, the referred student will sign into axiUm and locate their patient. The referred student will sign into the paper radiographic log and complete all of the requested information. The rotation student will image the patient. Each student assigned to the rotation, will serve as a Designated Digital Scanner to reinforce the skills required for digital radiographic processing including reserving MIPACS, selecting a template, reserving the scanner, scanning images, correcting mirrored and rotated images, remounting a series, describing a series, recording the exposure in the Series Description, saving to the DICOM server with faculty approval, access the patient (E.H.R.)Electronic Health Record and complete the radiographic note. Radiology faculty will approve the Radiographic Note in axiUm prior to the patient dismissal. The total radiation exposure is documented in MIPACS, in the axiUm radiographic note, and in the Radiology Log. Credits: 3 | ||
| ODS 834 | TMD and Orofacial Pain | |
| Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and other orofacial pain conditions are a significant health problem with prevalence comparable to other major dental diseases. As such, every dentist is obligated to know and to understand the current state of our knowledge regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis and management of these disorders. This course, therefore, provides basic information necessary to develop such an understanding. The lectures and assigned reading encompass masticatory muscle disorders such as myalgia, myofascial pain with referral and headache attributed to TMD. Intra-articular conditions such as degenerative joint disease, subluxation and disc displacements. The course also provides information on orofacial pain conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia, temporal arteritis, Eagle’s syndrome and primary headaches. An important aspect of this course is to develop a good understanding of the process and procedures involved in the differential diagnosis of these conditions. Thus, the course provides important information on patient evaluation, including those behavioral and psychosocial factors that may influence a patient’s symptoms or response to treatment. The principles and modalities of treatment, including the appropriate roles of behavioral, physical, pharmacological, occlusal, interocclusal appliance, and surgical therapies are also essential components of this course. Credits: 4 | ||
| ODS 838 | Clinical Diagnosis II | |
| This clinical course tests the ability of 3rd year dental students to present a patient to a senior faculty member and demonstrate an appropriate comprehensive head and neck exam. Medical history, a review of the patient’s medical problems, vital signs analysis, oral cancer risk assessment, and head/neck physical examination are performed while being reviewed by faculty. A grade is assigned, based on the thoroughness of the patient presentation and examination by the student. Credits: 4 | ||
| ODS 846 | Geriatric Dentistry | |
| Coming soon.. Credits: 4 | ||
| ODS 842 | Dental Management of Patients | |
| Increasingly, the practicing dentist is likely to see an a rising number of older patients and patients with developmental and acquired disabilities. This course introduces students to a variety of topics pertinent to understanding and treating older people and people who have special needs. Changing demographic and social trends, the basic science of aging, as well as focus on the tissues/diseases most relevant to the dentist are addressed. Specific issues associated with treating the older person and those with a disability in the community and society’s institutions will be presented. Credits: 4 | ||
| OSU 832 | Oral Surgery II | |
| This required course in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery follows coursework and pre-clinical courses in Local Anesthesia (OSU822) and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery I (OSU831) and occurs concomitant with oral and maxillofacial surgery clinical rotations. Didactic instruction will consist of lectures and suggested readings. It is the second in the two semester sequence required of all junior students. While OSU831 covered the basic principles and techniques in oral and maxillofacial surgery, OSU832 covers principles and techniques of more complex oral and maxillofacial surgery procedures including maxillofacial infections, trauma, cancer, reconstructive and orthognathic surgery, sleep apnea, and facial cosmetic surgery. In addition, patient evaluation, outcomes and complications of these more advanced procedures is discussed in greater depth than in OSU831. Credits: 4 | ||
| OSU 834 | Oral Surgery Clinic II | |
| The students will function in the various clinical environments with responsibilities including performance of patient assessment and triage, plus dentoalveolar surgery, assisting/observation of complex dentoalveolar surgery and observation of conscious sedation administration. The urgent care portion includes diagnosis of any dental or dentally related conditions, temporization and referral to appropriate specialists when indicated. Credits: 4 | ||
| OSU 836 | Anesthesia/Pain Control | |
| This required course in Anesthesia and Pain Control follows coursework and preclinical courses in local anesthesia plus the Oral Surgery Boot Camp (OSU837). Didactic instruction will consist of lectures, selected demonstrations and suggested readings. Course material to be covered will include modern techniques for the reduction of anxiety and apprehension via pharmacological and non-pharmacological means available in modern dental practice. Methods and techniques for the administration of conscious sedation, deep sedation and general anesthesia will be discussed with emphasis placed on the safe and effective use of modalities applicable to dental practice. The second major emphasis of this course will be in modern theory and practice of acute and chronic pain control predominately of the pharmacologic variety with non-pharmacologic methods to be introduced later in the sequence. Credits: 4 | ||
| ORT 832 | Orthodontics and Orthodontics Technique | |
| This course combines lecture with lab in order to reinforce learning of core introductory principles and appliances of orthodontics, including theory, fabrication and use of several representative removable and fixed orthodontic appliances. This course enables the student to distinguish those cases which can be treated by a general practitioner from those that should be referred to an orthodontist. This course incorporates a number of didactic and clinical technologies to support instruction, as follows: • axiUm software for dental education management • UB Learns(Blackboard) course management system • Support live lab demonstrations, project requirements and procedures with online videos/YouTube • Support lecture content with online videos/YouTube Credits: 4 | ||
| PDO 832 | Pediatric Dentistry II | |
| This course is uniquely designed to incorporate a modular curriculum building upon the foundational principles taught within Pediatric Dentistry and Clinical Practice I. A stepwise approach to learning will be utilized and includes didactic instruction through case-based lectures (CBL), followed by clinical simulation exercises (CSE) and culminating in direct patient care (DPC). Students will be introduced to new concepts, while reinforcing the basics in the distinctive aspects of pediatric care in the dental environment. Further exposure to the physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of the pediatric population coupled with the epidemiology of oral disease at that age will be explored. Students will acquire a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of the developing dentition, as well as gain exposure to varying pathologies, syndromes and anomalies that may occur in this population. Skills in the methods of basic and advanced behavior guidance will be developed. Students will also gain knowledge in the management of pediatric medical emergencies. As well, interceptive orthodontics will be addressed with respect to its application in the pediatric population. Students will continue to gain an understanding of the relationships within the treatment triangle and the importance of child advocacy. Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 832 | Surgical Perio. Therapy | |
| PER832 "Surgical Periodontal Therapy" is a continuation of PER831 "Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy." Whereas PER831 focuses on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of different forms of periodontal disease. PER832 focuses on the surgical treatment of periodontal diseases and is designed to prepare D3 students to understand periodontal surgical treatment options. This course builds on and assumes proficiency from the first two and a half years of dental school. Satisfactory completion of PER831 is a prerequisite for PER832. PER832 consists of: • Lectures • Reading assignments • In-class quizzes/assignments • 1 midterm examination • 1 final examination Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 834 | Periodontics Clinic II | |
| This clinical course is designed to increase your knowledge and improve your technical expertise in the delivery of periodontal therapy and its role in maintaining oral health. Credits: 4 | ||
| PER 837 | Endodontics Clinic II | |
| This course is part of the combined third-and fourth-year integrated clinical program, specifically addressing the endodontic needs of the patients of the School of Dental Medicine. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 833 | Fixed Prosthodontics II | |
| RDN833-II (RDN833S) is a lecture series in the Spring semester of the Third Year of the DDS program. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 834 | Fixed Prosthodontics Clinic II | |
| The course entails those same clinical procedures which are initiated with [a] review and recording of medical and dental history; [b] recognition and recording of individual’s chief concern (complaint); [c]data gathering and recording during a clinical patient examination and radiographic survey; [d] followed by definition of a problem list with associated treatment options; [e] then definition of a patient specific plan of treatment. This is followed by a series of treatment procedures that are attendant to fixed restorative dentistry including [a] foundation restorations; [b] tooth preparation, shade selection and; [c] tooth provisional stabilization; [d] tissue displacement and tooth impression; [e] laboratory preparation of working casts mounted on a semi adjustable articulator; [f] completion of laboratory work authorization; [g] and culminated with refinement and definitive placement of an indirectly fabricated restoration. Included throughout this treatment sequence are an ongoing assessment of patient compliance and education in oral hygiene procedures and review of patient responsibilities once active treatment is complete. This approach to patient treatment is repeated with multiple patients across the third clinical year with a minimum of treatments required to satisfy the course criteria. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 835 | Cariology and Direct Restorations IV | |
| This Year 3 Spring semester (D3 Spring) lecture course follows the caries management and direct restorative dentistry preparations and restorations that were taught during in the D3 Fall course. Emphasis will be placed on caries risk assessment for individualizing patient preventive and treatment planning. Minimally Invasive treatment and Evidence-Based care will be stressed. One third of the course will address Esthetic and Cosmetic Dentistry. Statistics and Evidence-Based Dentistry will be featured. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 836 | Operative Clinic II | |
| Operative Dentistry is the art and science of dentistry that deals with the prevention and diagnosis of caries, its management based on risk assessment, the restoration of individual teeth to proper occlusal function and to a form which is in harmony with surrounding hard and soft tissues. This 3rdyear patientcentered clinical experience in Operative Dentistry puts into practice what was learned in the 2ndyear Operative Preclinical course series (RDN809/810) and 3rdyear Operative didactic course (RDN835), and serves as the foundation for the comprehensive patient treatment of the 4th year. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 838 | Removable Prosthodontics IV | |
| RDN838 Removable Prosthodontics IV is a continuation of RDN837 Removable Prosthodontics III, and it assumes knowledge from all the courses provided in the first two and a half years of dental school (RDN824, RDN826 and RDN837). RDN838 focuses on the diagnosis, treatment planning, design and prosthetic rehabilitation of the partially edentulous state, while it reinforces the previously attained knowledge of the predoctoral student on complete denture rehabilitation and introduces more complex patient care. By the end of this course, the student should have obtained and reinforced theoretical foundation on conventional removable prosthodontics. By the end of this course, the student should have obtained a strong theoretical foundation for removable prosthodontics. In addition, it is the intent of this course to familiarize the student with certain aspects of prosthodontics that may or may not have a clinical component in the school curriculum but remains an area in which the student should have exposure to. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 839 | Removable Prosthodontics Clinic II | |
| This course is part of the combined third-and fourth-year integrated clinical program. The overall goals, objectives and methods of evaluation are consistent with those of third year Comprehensive Care Clinic courses CLD831 and CLD832. Credits: 4 | ||
| RDN 845 | Implant Dentistry Clinic I | |
| This clinical course series provides basic clinical experience in the replacement of missing teeth with dental implants. Credits: 4 | ||
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Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., M-F
DDS Admissions
School of Dental Medicine
315 Squire Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14214